On Sun, 11 Sep 2011 11:20:19 -0500, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 8:03 AM, Carmel <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I am wondering if anyone has any personal experience with using KVM > > switches with FreeBSD and what that experience might be. I would really > > like to integrate these two PC into using just one common monitor, > > etcetera mostly due to space considerations. > > > > My experience with this is limited, but good. It's been sometime since I've > used this setup, but I recall the FreeBSD was actually PCBSD and for it to > work correctly I have to have them KVM switched to it when X was starting.
I have ben using a similar approach in the past, but in order to get rid of the requirement "when X is started, console must be attached" I had hardcoded the neccessary screen settings in xorg.conf so X would start even if nothing would have been connected. Sadly I can't remember the particular model that I had, but it had buttons to select one of the 8 "console channels" on its front. I found this was better than using something that required some weird keyboard shortcut as those are traditionally handled by the OS or by X. A LED indicator next to the buttons on the device's front indicated which system the console was connected to and if the system was online. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
