On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 07:31:05AM -0700, Steve Wingate typed: > 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.
Yes, I was responding to the no keyboard on boot problem Eric Olsen was talking about. This is not related to your mouse problem (I guess). The reason there's a flag in the GENERIC kernel to only try the keyboard once on boot-up has something to do with trying to make the GENERIC kernel as generic as possible (so when a check for PS/2 keyboard fails, for example, it will continue to look for other keyboards, like USB). At least, that's what I'm told. > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
