From owner-freebsd-current Sat Aug 11 12:54:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from earth.backplane.com (earth-nat-cw.backplane.com [208.161.114.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB60137B403 for ; Sat, 11 Aug 2001 12:54:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon@earth.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by earth.backplane.com (8.11.4/8.11.2) id f7BJscE19607; Sat, 11 Aug 2001 12:54:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2001 12:54:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Matt Dillon Message-Id: <200108111954.f7BJscE19607@earth.backplane.com> To: Terry Lambert Cc: Kazutaka YOKOTA , Sean Kelly , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD's aggressive keyboard probe/attach 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> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG :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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message