On Tue, 2002-07-16 at 07:06, Tom Limoncelli wrote:
> Ruben de Groot wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 07:33:31PM -0400, Eric Olsen typed:
> > [...]
> > 
> >>I have not had any problems switching between machines, EXCEPT that 
> >>when a machine is booting up, the KVM must be set to that machine in 
> >>order for recognition of the mouse and kbd to work properly.  I find 
> >>this to be true for Win, FBSD, and Linux.  Once the machine has booted, 
> >>I can switch away and back with no problems.  I believe I was running 
> >>FBSD 4.3 when I first installed the KVM.
> > 
> > 
> > This is a kernel configuration issue. Edit the line
> > 
> > device          atkbd0  at atkbdc? irq 1 flags 0x1
> > 
> > in your kernel configuration file, removing the "flags 0x1" part. Recompile 
> > your kernel and reboot. The machine will now recognize your keyboard even 
> > when it was switched away at boot time. 
> 
> Why isn't this the default for GENERIC kernels?
> 
> And dare I ask... why is there even a flag for this situation?

Probably because it isn't always needed, and in my case didn't work
anyway. The problem is the mouse, imo.




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