KVM (keyboard-video-mouse) Switch
Greetings, I have an electronic KVM that I want to use to switch between my crappy system, and my FreeBSD system. The keyboard and mouse work fine on my crappy system, but, on the FreeBSD system, they work fine on startup, but after switching back and forth only once, the mouse (LED mouse) starts flashing, and the keyboard only works intermittently. After reading a bit on the newsgroups/mailing lists, I added flags 0x100 to the device psm0 line in the kernel, and recompiled it, but that did not fix the problem. Then, I added the optional 9V adapter to the KVM, but that also did not fix the problem. Is there something I am missing, or does FreeBSD just not work with a KVM? I'm using FreeBSD 4.7-Release-p3. The two different KVMs (both create the same problem) are a Belkin OmniView SE, and a StarTech StarView. Regards, Justin P. Michel |- J Continuum |- 21071 - 640 River Street |- Thunder Bay, ON, Canada |- P7A 8A7 |- http://www.jcontinuum.ca To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: KVM (keyboard-video-mouse) Switch
I have an electronic KVM that I want to use to switch between my crappy system, and my FreeBSD system. The keyboard and mouse work fine on my crappy system, but, on the FreeBSD system, they work fine on startup, but after switching back and forth only once, the mouse (LED mouse) starts flashing, and the keyboard only works intermittently. After reading a bit on the newsgroups/mailing lists, I added flags 0x100 to the device psm0 line in the kernel, and recompiled it, but that did not fix the problem. Then, I added the optional 9V adapter to the KVM, but that also did not fix the problem. Is there something I am missing, or does FreeBSD just not work with a KVM? I'm using FreeBSD 4.7-Release-p3. The two different KVMs (both create the same problem) are a Belkin OmniView SE, and a StarTech StarView. Regards, Justin P. Michel Does your KVM have the option to reset the mouse keyboard? I use Cybex KVM's and the problem you're describing is normally fixed by performing a kbd/mouse reset via the Cybex's on screen menu. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: KVM (keyboard-video-mouse) Switch
At 2003-01-22T20:21:41Z, Justin P. Michel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm using FreeBSD 4.7-Release-p3. The two different KVMs (both create the same problem) are a Belkin OmniView SE, and a StarTech StarView. I'm using an OmniView SE between several Unix machines without difficulty. Maybe yours has a flaky connection? -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. msg16337/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: KVM (keyboard-video-mouse) Switch
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 03:21:41PM -0500, Justin P. Michel wrote: Greetings, I have an electronic KVM that I want to use to switch between my crappy system, and my FreeBSD system. The keyboard and mouse work fine on my crappy system, but, on the FreeBSD system, they work fine on startup, but after switching back and forth only once, the mouse (LED mouse) starts I'm using a linksys kvm switch to go between linux (rh 7.3), freebsd (4.6), and windows2000. The only problem I have is with win2000. The switch must be set to that machine during windows startup or windows doesn't think there's a mouse.. -- David Bear College of Public Programs/ASU Mail Code 0803 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: KVM (keyboard-video-mouse) Switch
David Bear wrote: On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 03:21:41PM -0500, Justin P. Michel wrote: Greetings, I have an electronic KVM that I want to use to switch between my crappy system, and my FreeBSD system. The keyboard and mouse work fine on my crappy system, but, on the FreeBSD system, they work fine on startup, but after switching back and forth only once, the mouse (LED mouse) starts I'm using a linksys kvm switch to go between linux (rh 7.3), freebsd (4.6), and windows2000. The only problem I have is with win2000. The switch must be set to that machine during windows startup or windows doesn't think there's a mouse.. I acutally had a similar problem between two FreeBSD systems. I have a tendency to believe that whether or not a KVM works reliably is more dependent on the PC hardware than the OS. In our case, the workaround was to ensure that the KVM was set to the system that was actively being [re]booted. As long as that's done, we've had no problems. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: KVM (keyboard-video-mouse) Switch
On 22 Jan 2003 at 16:32, Bill Moran wrote: David Bear wrote: On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 03:21:41PM -0500, Justin P. Michel wrote: I have an electronic KVM that I want to use to switch between my crappy system, and my FreeBSD system. The keyboard and mouse work fine on my crappy system, but, on the FreeBSD system, they work fine on startup, but after switching back and forth only once, the mouse (LED mouse) starts I'm using a linksys kvm switch to go between linux (rh 7.3), freebsd (4.6), and windows2000. The only problem I have is with win2000. The switch must be set to that machine during windows startup or windows doesn't think there's a mouse.. I acutally had a similar problem between two FreeBSD systems. I have a tendency to believe that whether or not a KVM works reliably is more dependent on the PC hardware than the OS. In our case, the workaround was to ensure that the KVM was set to the system that was actively being [re]booted. As long as that's done, we've had no problems. I've used a number of different brands of KVM and have had the best success with the IOGear MiniView SE, in 2-, 4-, and 8-port versions. The only problem I've seen has been that my old FreeBSD 2.2.6 blush system occasionally won't boot properly unless the KVM is set to it, but that seems to occur less than 10% of the time. I've seen a LOT of trouble with some other brands of KVM, though I'm sure there are other good ones out there. I agree that hardware, particularly the KVM itself, is a bigger factor than the OS. -- Jerry Dunham M3 Design, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (512) 218-8858 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
