[ale] KVM switch?

James P. Kinney III jkinney at localnetsolutions.com
Sat May 27 14:43:10 EDT 2006


On Sat, 2006-05-27 at 14:31 -0500, Courtney Thomas wrote:
> Yes, but I should add that I use serial mice.

Then you should probably look at upgrading your mice as your choices are
very limited and prices are much higher and some distros (Fedora5) have
dropped support for serial mice entirely. Not to mention that most KVM
devices don't support serial mice and the ones that do are rather more
expensive that the PS2 port versions.
> 
> Courtney
> 
> Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> > But could non-selected machines boot up OK?
> > 
> > Courtney Thomas wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>I also use Belkin [6 port OmniView] and have no problems whatsoever with 
> >>half a dozen OSes of various flavors and it was cheap.
> >>
> >>HTH,
> >>Courtney
> >>
> >>Christopher Fowler wrote:
> >> 
> >>
> >>
> >>>On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 18:33 -0400, roberth1954 at aim.com wrote:
> >>>
> >>>   
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>I have a Belkin "OmniCube" and have a problem with mouse sync
> >>>>too... As it turned out, the problem was NOT Linux but was actually
> >>>>Gnome. I tried it with at least 5 different distro's and the ones that
> >>>>use Gnome (Ubuntu, Fedora) have a problem (it started with Gnome
> >>>>v2) but, the ones with KDE (Kubuntu, Suse) are fine. I would set the
> >>>>KVM switch on my Gnome box and as long as I didn't change the port it
> >>>>would work great all day. However, if I ever changed to another box, I
> >>>>would literally have to power boot the Gnome box to make it work
> >>>>again. (ctl+alt+bs did not work)
> >>>>     
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>I was thinking my PC was screwy.  My problem is even more weird.  I have
> >>>a Belkin 2 port.  This happens when I switch ports.  Even rebooting the
> >>>Linux box does not help.  This switch gets its power from the PS/2 ports
> >>>to to get my mouse back in sync I have to power off the switch by
> >>>turning everything off and unplugging power to everything.  This in turn
> >>>"restarts" the KVM.  It then works fine until I switch again.  I now use
> >>>a USB mouse and manually switch that mouse as needed.  I've given up on
> >>>getting the KVM to work and based on the comments here it maybe a
> >>>problem that is not solved by using another KVM.
> >>>
> >>>
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