Re: KVM switch vs. FreeBSD psm driver (Solved!)

[Wes Peters]

John Polstra wrote:
> 
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> John Polstra  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > I've got a Belkin OmniView Pro 8-Port KVM switch which thinks it's
> > much smarter than it really is.  When I try to use the mouse through
> > it with FreeBSD (-current from around Christmas, but I also had
> > problems with -stable) it doesn't work right at all.  It's got the
> > same symptoms everybody else has reported: the cursor jumps around,
> > and lots of "psmintr: out of sync" messages get logged.
> 
> I'm happy to report that this problem is solved now.  After one fellow
> wrote to me and reported that his switch of the same model worked OK,
> I hunted around on the Belkin web site.  It turns out that Belkin
> assembled a few thousand of the units with two EPROMs swapped, and
> mine was one of them.  I moved the chips to their proper sockets, and
> now everything works fine.  You can find the gory details here:

Snort.  Let's hear it for good web support, though.

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Wes Peters                                                         Softweyr LLC
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