Subject: Re: Panic with USB KVM and 1.5.2
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
From: Steven Grunza <steven_grunza@ieee.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 07/30/2002 15:54:39
The machine is home (I'm not at the moment) but the PS/2 keyboard does work
if plugged in...
I'll post the dmesg output tomorrow, along with the name/model of the KVM
switch...
At 09:27 PM 7/30/2002 +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
>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 ?
>
>--
>Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
>--