Would it by chance be a Belkin omni pro 8 port KVM? I have seen theIt also sounds like a problem that I had with a KVM switch made (well sold) by Black Box in the UK. The problem was in the firmware and getting the switch replaced by one with more recent firmware solved the problem.
same problem with that unit. The 4 port unit from that vendor works
just fine. I searched for some time and tried different cables and put
swapped the systems around. One suspicion I had was the type of
mouse. I am using an HP wheel mouse and I think the Belkin unit may
have a problem with that. For the moment I am using the 4 port unit and
have given up on the 8 port. At some point I want to get an 8 port unit
but that will be awhile. In the mean time I am using vnc to access
several systems over the network from my laptop (wireless network can be
useful).
I seem to remember that resetting the switch tended to fix the problem sometimes. Also using the buttons on the switch rather than the keyboard access (or the other way around) fixed the problem a bit. I suspect Ctrl-Alt-F1 and Ctrl-Alt-F7 would also help.
Nigel Simpson? Not the Nigel Simpson who used to work for Cirrus in Fareham once upon a time?
jch
On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 13:51, Nigel Simpson wrote:
My RH 9 system is connected to a KVM switch which I use to switch between multiple systems. The works well for me except for a new behavior that seems to have happened since I upgraded from RH 8.
Sometimes when I switch from another system to my RH 9 system my mouse goes haywire. It behaves as if one or more mouse buttons are pressed down and it has an affinity with the bottom left hand corner of the desktop. This of course leads to applications getting started randomly as items in the desktop menu are auto-clicked, the panel gets dragged around etc. Other times, the mouse is totally frozen. I can ALT-TAB around the desktop and TAB inside applications but the only way to restore mouse sanity is to CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE to restart the X server. I'd like to figure out a way to regain mouse sanity, perhaps by entering a command in a terminal. Is there anything I can do short of tossing out my KVM ? Unplugging and re-connecting the mouse doesn't help either.
Thanks !
Nigel
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