Slow swith between console (ALT - Fx) proliant DL160

Jeremy Chadwick koitsu at FreeBSD.org
Tue Nov 4 06:42:50 PST 2008


On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 03:36:51PM +0100, Johan Hendriks wrote:
> Hello all
> I have a small issue when i switch between my console?s on a proliant DL160 G5 machine.
> It has a time gap from around 1 to 2 seconds and then it will switch to the next console after pressing ALT - F2
> 
> Do I need to set something in my loader.conf or sysctl.conf?

Chances are you're using a USB keyboard.  Place the following in
/boot/loader.conf and reboot the machine:

hint.kbdmux.0.disabled="1"

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