Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3103 mails)

[Kevin McLauchlan <kevinmcl@xxxxxxxx>]

All,

I've had SuSE for several years. I've got a Belkin Omni 4-port KVM switch, 
that I've been using for 2-1/2 years with no problems. When I bring my 
laptop home, I just plug it in and I'm using the shared keyboard, cordless 
optical mouse and 19-inch monitor.  That configuration has worked 
flawlessly with SuSE 7.3 and 8.0.

I installed 8.1 at the end of October, 2002, and was having crashes 
every couple of days until I installed a kernel update in January. 
Linux and X have been behaving themselves nicely for the past 
few weeks.    Success!
Then I brought the laptop home...

After a few hours of work, I switch the KVM back to my home PC, 
only to find it frozen, needing reboot. Next night, same thing.

This is the first time I've had the laptop home for work since 
December 20. In other words, the problem would have been 
masked by the pre-kernel-patch crashing of SuSE 8.1. Now 
that that problem seems fixed, this other problem is revealed.

Anybody have any thoughts on the matter? Similar results?
Possible causes?

The Belkin KVM just does its thing. No drivers are involved.
It's just an electronically actuated "gang" switch, with debounce 
and related niceties. A workhorse. Nothing special.

Is it possible that the current flavor of SuSE (or X?) is looking 
for some sort of occasional handshake from keyboard or mouse, 
that it fails to find when I have the KVM switched over to the laptop?
Could it be co-incidence?  I had no crashes in the three weeks 
following the kernel patch, until hooking up the laptop and switching 
the KVM away from position "1".

/kevin