Re: KVM USB

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On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 05:54:23PM -0500, alex wrote:
> Brooks,
> 
> What I actually did and it seems to work was that I changed dev.conf  
> this way: (I changed the device name to "ukbd1" instead of "ukbd0" 
> because when my keyboard remounts itself after being unplugged its 
> called "ukbd1". Do you think this may cause some other issues Im not 
> aware of yet? Here is my modified dev.conf snippet.

Ah, intresting.  I suppose it's to too suprising that kbd0 doesn't 
detach enough to let that slot be reused.  If that works it's probably
OK.

-- Brooks

> # When a USB keyboard arrives, attach it as the console keyboard
> attach 100 {
>         device-name "ukbd1";
>         action "test -c /dev/kbd1 && kbdcontrol -k /dev/kbd1 < 
> /dev/console";
> };
> detach 100 {
>         device-name "ukbd1";
>         action "kbdcontrol -k /dev/kbd0 < /dev/console";
> };
> 
> 
> On Mar 9, 2005, at 2:40 PM, Brooks Davis wrote:
> 
> >On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 02:10:49PM -0500, Alex Welycz wrote:
> >>All,
> >>
> >>I'm using FreeBSD 5.3 and I've run into a bit of a problem. I am using
> >>a KVM switch that does not keep a live connection to the computer when
> >>switching between computers ie. the computers show that the usb
> >>keyboard/mouse are unplugged when you switch between them. My problem
> >>occurs when the i switch from my Windows box back to my FreeBSD box.
> >>The USB deamon on the BSD box shows that the keyboard is recognized
> >>and loads it but when i try to use the keyboard nothing comes up. The
> >>USB keyboard does work when I reboot the BSD box and dont switch
> >>between computers. Now how I get the USB keyboard to work when i
> >>switch between computers I have to run this script.
> >>
> >>sleep 15
> >>kbdcontrol -k /dev/kbd1 < /dev/ttyv0 > /dev/null
> >>
> >>Apparently when I reboot the box everything works fine, the USB
> >>keyboard is accessed as
> >>
> >>kbd0 -> ukbd0
> >>
> >>but when I switch between boxes and switch back the keyboard doesnt
> >>get mounted at
> >>
> >>kbd0 -> ukbd0 but instead is mounted at kbd1 -> ukbd1.
> >>
> >>So my question is how do I get FreeBSD to always mount the keyboard as
> >>kbd0 -> ukbd0 and not kbd1 -> ukbd1
> >>
> >>Because upon bootup my kbdcontrol is called as:
> >>
> >> kbdcontrol -k /dev/kbd0 < /dev/ttyv0 > /dev/null and cannot be called
> >>wih kbd1 because at bootup that device does not exist, and also that
> >>device disappears when I swicth to my other computer so kbdcontrol
> >>sets itself back to kbd0.
> >
> >This is caused by a bug in /etc/devd.conf that I fixed a week ago in 5.
> >Just change the line to refer to ukbd0 instead of bogusly refering to
> >kbd1.  The problem was caused by crappy examples in the manpage making
> >me think you had to use the generic /dev/kbd# device not the specific
> >/dev/ukdb# device with kbdcontrol.
> >
> >-- Brooks
> >
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