Subject: Re: Panic with USB KVM and 1.5.2
To: Steven Grunza <steven_grunza@ieee.org>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 07/30/2002 21:27:39
On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 03:05:03PM -0400, Steven Grunza wrote:
> I'm running 1.5.2 on an older PC (200 MHz Pentium).  The BIOS doesn't 
> recognize the USB keyboard I have attached through a KVM switch but NetBSD 
> finds and uses it with a "keyboard" command in the /etc/wscons.conf file
> 
> My problem is when I switch to the other system on the KVM switch NetBSD 
> panics.
> 
> I read in the man pages that if the console device is not present a panic 
> will occur; however, I've actually got two console keyboards, one is the 
> PS/2 port (that doesn't have a keyboard plugged in) and the other is 
> through the KVM switch.

Are you sure your PS2 port is detected ?
Maybe post your dmesg, the panic message, and the ddb backtrace ?

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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