On Sun, 10 Jan 2016 15:08:38 -0700 Glenn English <g...@srv.slsware.net> wrote:
> > > On Jan 10, 2016, at 2:21 PM, German <gentger...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I already tried Mint, Ubuntu and Open SUSE. All the same, mouse and > > keyboard don't work. > > Hate to beat a dead dog, but are they all using SystemD? I swear > Wheezy and several earlier versions of Debian (all shell script > startups, etc.) work just fine, and I can believe this is a subtle > bug that the SystemD developers didn't notice. Jessie is great on the > laptop, but there's no KVM involved. Try FreeBSD or Slackware. I just tried Majaro OpenRC edition. The things are the same. Mouse got frozen. Was pressing random keys on keyboard and doubt it works either. > > Is anyone on this list successfully running a pile of Jessies with a > KVM? > > My KVM is used only with Dell and SuperMicro servers -- could their > different BIOSes be the trouble? > > If you plug the mouse, keyboard, and monitor into the KVM and set the > KVM to one of your boxen, then boot that box from powered off, do > things work? No, they don't I've noticed my servers talking about seeing new devices > when I switch between machines with the KVM. Maybe yours set things > at boot and don't notice the switch? > Interesting though. If I forget to plug USB switch cable to a computer, the BIOS complains that it can't find the keyboard. So BIOS seems to be perfectly aware of the switch. All works great in BIOS, and mouse and keyboard.
