On Wednesday 19 October 2005 02:53 pm, Jack Malone wrote:

At 02:44 PM 10/19/2005, James Knott wrote:

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Steve Kratz wrote:

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Another problem is radiation.

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What radiation?

You know, the MS Plutonium Mouse(tm) ;)

I thought he was talking about Centrino radiation. ;-)

I'm the op here an thought I would thank for your help ideals. With suse 10.0 on my test bench machine I do not seem to loose the scrolling on the linux side now to find the solution to not loose it on my durn windows machine I have to use here at work for other things. Only thing I can do is live with it til the next reboot for now. or go back to using 2 mice one for each of the machines :( .

Jack, I have an IBM 8 port, dual head KVM here using PS/2 ports, and I have the same problem. The Linux box seems to recover the wheel capabilities after a second or two of switching back, (Especially if I [Ctrl]+[Alt]+F1 and then [Ctrl]+[Alt]+F7 to get back to the X Session) but the windoze box will not. Its related to the same problem that you'll find if you unplug some mice from a Windows box and try plugging them in again. Sometimes (rarely) they will come back, but most times you will have lost the ability to use it at all. My XP Pro workstation has this problem. However, if you were using a USB switch, I believe, this would not happen, as it doesn't at work where I have a two port USB KVM that works pretty well, especially considering Windoze has to "rediscover" the mouse and keyboard every time I switch from one machine to the other. Its a sybex I think -- See Ya' Howard Coles Jr. John 3:16!