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
