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Hello everybody...

my X1000 doesn't boot any more after applying upd6 over upd5. However this is not completely true... because I did that to my old system (upd5):

http://amigaworld.net/modules/newbb/vie ... =32#466559

Moved SYS:Kickstart/bootkeyboard.usbfd and bootmouse.usbfd to anywhere else.
Moved DEVS:USB/fdclasses/bootkeyboard.fdclass and bootmouse.usbfd to anywhere else.
Moveed hid.usbfd from DEVS:USB/fd/ to SYS:Kickstart/
Opened SYS:Kickstart/Kicklayout with a texteditor and changed

MODULE Kickstart/bootmouse.usbfd
MODULE Kickstart/bootkeyboard.usbfd
to

;MODULE Kickstart/bootmouse.usbfd
;MODULE Kickstart/bootkeyboard.usbfd
MODULE Kickstart/hid.usbfd

This one was done in order to get my KVM Switch working... (see related thread on AW.net)

... seems, that upd6 overwrote kicklayout. If I rollback/revert to the original situation from above (move bootkeyboard.usbfd etc. to where it originally belongs) I can boot ! But no chance to use my KVM swicht anymore !

So, what did you change regarding kicklyout and related files ? Any idea how to get my KVM working ?

@ChrisH
Any Idea ? As I have got the same KVM as you have/had ?

regards Gero

@all

O.k. sorry for bothering you... solved the problem / screwed up something:

As described in the AW.net thread and relating threads from ChrisH some USB KVM Switches donnot work out of the box. This is due to KVM Switches who emulate mouse and keyboard (otherwise USBStack will always initialize keyboard and mouse when switching between Amiga and PC). In my case, you cannot proberly boot with the mentioned KVM switch, it seems that the KVM reports a "pressed left mouse button" towards AmigaOS. This results in booting into a shellwindow, which can be moved without pressing any mousebutton. ChrisH found a solution for that problem (see description above). And yes, the solution still works on Upd6 !!!
In my case I either forgot to copy a hid.usbfd or any other file, or more likely did not readjust Kicklayout. Probably applied the changes above to debug section of Kicklayout.
Upd.6 overwrites your Kicklayout file, which shouldn't be a problem as long as you didn't change anything. If you did, make sure you reapplay your changes also to upd6 section, and not only to debug section of Kicklayout !

regards Gero

@gerograph
The changes described used to work perfectly, but now on OS4 they *sometimes* cause OS4 to get stuck at the boot screen (requiring a hard reset). I have to live with this annoyance, or else buy another expensive KVM Switch (which may work better or worse than the current one).