Hello, I have a F1D094 Belkin OMNI-Cube 4 port powered KVM switch. Here is what happens here: If it is switched to a system that is running OK and I switch it to another sys all is OK. If it is switched to a sys that hung, or otherwise lost its Op Sys then it may or may not switch to another sys by keyboard key combo. If I switch it to another working sys by pushing the Belkin's switch, it is likely that there will be no mouse avail to the newly selected system. NOTE: this means that when a system 'messes-up' it can affect how the other systems work. If I leave the KVM switched to the hung system and reset adn reboot the sys, and the reboot works, then I can switch to other systems w/o problems. My (Semi-perment) solution? I plug seperate mice into each system HTH .............. PeterB On Thursday 17 April 2003 12:37 pm, Hans Forbrich wrote:
Dmitry Melekhov wrote:
OK, I forgot to add IMHO.
Sorry if I sound grumpy - brand new KVM, brand new mouse and new release of my favorite OS.
It does appear to be the KVM - see bottom.
No. First, I never had such problem with our HP switches. Certanly, I only _tested_ this, but don't use in production. Second, and more important, - I don't need X and even framebuffer on server, so I don't need mouse on server. I even don't need more than serial console, unfortunately it is impossible to run most if x86 servers in headless mode :-(
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Ben Rosenberg wrote:
It is a problem between " powered " KVM switches, X and Wheel mice. A co-worker was having issues with an older Belkin KVM that he was using. I gave him a Linksys switch that didn't require power and the problem went away. I believe newer Belkin's do not suffer from this. It's not a Linux kernel issue. It's an XFree86 issue because I had the same problem with two FreeBSD boxes in my lab at work. I'm not sure if there is a fix yet since I moved these machines to a Linksys KVM and they work fine. You might want to see if there is a fix in Xfree86 4.3.0 for this.. I've not checked it out recently.
OK ...
The original KVM was a Belkin Omniview SOHO 4-port (model F1DS104P). This is a unit with >optional< power, which I do not have installed, so it (apparently) get's it's power from the PS2 keyboard connections.
I switched to a non-optical wheel mouse - same problem.
I then switched to a Belkin OmniView SE 4-port (model F1D104). This is a powered unit. Mouse works fine. So I get a different result than Ben????
Next tests - switch back & add power to the SOHO. Then switch to a non-wheel mouse (if I can find one <g>)
Thanks to both of you ofr the ideas, suggestions, etc. /Hans
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