Hard Lock with Fedora Core 1

Michael Mansour micoots at yahoo.com
Sat Mar 20 07:46:17 UTC 2004


Hi,

> > On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 23:24, Small, Jim wrote:
> > > Ugghhh!!!
> > > 
> > > I think I know what the problem is.  I remember
> pulling my hair out with Red
> > > Hat Linux 7.X.
> > > 
> > > For some reason, Red Hat Linux does not like
> KVMs.  I believe it's something
> > > with the mouse driver.  I'm using a Autoview 400
> KVM with a type 5 Sun
> > > keyboard.  I haven't had problems with many
> other O/S, but Red Hat just
> > > doesn't like KVMs.  Even just using the console,
> it will lock up.  Sure
> > > enough, as soon as I plugged in a standard
> keyboard and mouse (directly) it
> > > appears to run fine--no hard locks.
> > > 
> > 
> > I have not had this experience on FC1. I run two
> PC's (one with FC1, and
> > the other with Win2k). I also have a Belkin KVM to
> free up my desktop.
> > When first installed, I had a Logitech wheelmouse
> and whenever I
> > switched from one PC to the other, the mouse would
> go wild. I eventually
> > solved this problem by disabling the wheel
> option(s) on the mouse, since
> > when I have had _no_ problems whatsoever when
> switching. I never really
> > used the wheel options anyway, so do not miss
> them, and I certainly do
> > not miss the "wild" mouse activity.
> 
> A sitecom KVM KV-003 works without any troubles
> here.

And I myself have used 3 types, Compaq 4 port,
Blackbox 8 port and Masterview Pro 16 port (which I'm
using now) on Windows, RH8 and FC1. All no problems.

Michael.

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