Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3109 mails)

[James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Carl Hartung wrote:
> On Thu February 22 2007 23:44, John Andersen wrote:
>   
>> On Thursday 22 February 2007, Jose wrote:
>>     
>>> connected to the box using a usb to ps2 convertor
>>>       
>> There's your problem. PS2 was never intended for hotplug.
>>     
>
> I thought the whole idea of a KVM switch was to provide 'stealth' hotplugging 
> of the (K)eyboard (V)ideo and (M)ouse?
>
> Carl
>   

There are (were?) some cheap KVMs that were essentially big mechanical
switches that didn't do that.  However, I've got what was a fairly
expensive, good quality switch (Protec Bytelan) that exhibits that
problem.  My question is why does it affect only Linux?  I've never seen
the problem with OS/2 or Windows.  Also, with the 2.4 kernel, it was
possible to clear the problem, but not 2.6, by switching to a text
console and back to desktop.


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