Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2001 12:54:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>, Sean Kelly <smkelly@zombie.org>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD's aggressive keyboard probe/attach Message-ID: <200108111954.f7BJscE19607@earth.backplane.com> References: <20010807234645.A573@edgemaster.zombie.org> <20010809032027.A99813@xor.obsecurity.org> <20010810174521.A681@edgemaster.zombie.org> <200108110241.LAA20110@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> <20010810221944.A90165@edgemaster.zombie.org> <200108110627.PAA21155@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> <20010811013959.A588@edgemaster.zombie.org> <200108110828.RAA21659@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> <3B7589A5.C2B1DE00@mindspring.com>
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:Finally, most keyboard/mouse/monitor switches don't work with
:FreeBSD; for example, the Belkin console extender that uses the
:ethernet cable doesn't work at all (it's the best one out there),
:and the local wiring (non-ethernet version) of the Belkin OmniView
:switches work if the FreeBSD mouse/keyboard is selected at boot
:time, so that the aggressive probe/attach can satisfy itself.
:
:Belkin went out of its way to support FreeBSD specifically,
:actually: their firmware version 1.9 fixes the local wiring
:switches, so that they can pass FreeBSD's aggressive probe, even
:if the FreeBSD mouse/keyboard is _not_ selected.
:
:
:For PC hardware, FreeBSD should use the BIOS (it can, now: the
:boot loader does, with the caveat that old style keyboards can
:be used, but are not autodetected properly by some BIOS; see the
:serial console notes for the /boot.config "-P" flag in the FreeBSD
:handbook); for the Alpha and other hardware, it should use the
:local firmware (obviously).
:
:-- Terry
This has been a pet peeve of mine too. It is an unbelievably annoying
trait of FreeBSD (the keyboard problem), and the mouse problem is also
quite annoying.
-Matt
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