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

2001-01-10 Thread Brian Dean
On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 11:20:43PM -0700, Wes Peters wrote: John Polstra wrote: 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

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

2001-01-10 Thread Doug Barton
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

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

2001-01-07 Thread Kazutaka YOKOTA
Do you know if this fixes the problem the following problem that I started experiencing somewhere in the RELENG_4 line? For some machines, if the KVM is not pointed at the box, the keyboard will not probe properly, and does not respond for that session. As long as I boot with the KVM pointed

Re: KVM switch vs. FreeBSD psm driver

2001-01-07 Thread Justin T. Gibbs
I've got a Belkin OmniView Pro 8-Port KVM switch which thinks it's much smarter than it really is. I've had so many problems with this product that I dumped it for an Apex Outlook. I couldn't be happier. Since I donated the Belkin to another group, I've heard that they were able to send it in

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

2001-01-07 Thread Robert Watson
On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Kazutaka YOKOTA wrote: I guess your KVM switch won't let the kernel talk to the keyboard, if the switch wasn't pointed to the FreeBSD box. Remove the flags 0x1 from atkbd in your kernel config file. This flag makes atkbd fail, if it doesn't detect a keyboard.

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

2001-01-07 Thread Kazutaka YOKOTA
So, question: is there a reason why we can't enable both the USB keyboard and a native PS/2 keyboard with syscons? It seems that I frequently find myself in a position where I'd like to plug in a keyboard, or switch KVM choices to a machine, and discover myself with no access to the hardware

KVM switch vs. FreeBSD psm driver

2001-01-06 Thread John Polstra
I realize this is a well-known problem. Although there's much discussion about it in the mailing list archives, I couldn't find an actual solution. 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

Re: KVM switch vs. FreeBSD psm driver

2001-01-06 Thread John Polstra
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], jack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a Brand X KVM which also claims Intellimouse support. I've found that if the switch is set to a machine when that machine boots all is well, if I boot a machine with a different one active on the KVM when I go to the one

RE: KVM switch vs. FreeBSD psm driver

2001-01-06 Thread SteveB
PROTECTED] Subject: Re: KVM switch vs. FreeBSD psm driver In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], jack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a Brand X KVM which also claims Intellimouse support. I've found that if the switch is set to a machine when that machine boots all is well, if I boot a machine

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

2001-01-06 Thread John Polstra
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)

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

2001-01-06 Thread Robert Watson
On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, 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

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

2001-01-06 Thread Dan Langille
On 6 Jan 2001, at 22:10, Robert Watson wrote: Do you know if this fixes the problem the following problem that I started experiencing somewhere in the RELENG_4 line? For some machines, if the KVM is not pointed at the box, the keyboard will not probe properly, and does not respond for that

Re: KVM switch vs. FreeBSD psm driver

2001-01-06 Thread Wes Peters
John Polstra wrote: I realize this is a well-known problem. Although there's much discussion about it in the mailing list archives, I couldn't find an actual solution. 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

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

2001-01-06 Thread 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