FC1 and Belkin OmniView 4-port switch (Bob Hartung)

lwj wayne at zkcelltest.com
Mon May 3 16:06:03 UTC 2004


On Sun, 2004-05-02 at 21:34, amsm at iprimus.com.au wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> A few months back, I tried a Belkin 4-port "SOHO" KVM switch in my then setup
> of RH 7.3 firewall/gateway machine, RH9 workstation (mostly running X) and
> Win2K box.
> 
> I found that whenever I switched out to the RH7 or Win2k machines, on return
> to the RH9 machine, the mouse was uncontrollable.  Apparently it's a known
> issue with Belkin switches and X.  I tried the various suggestions I found
> on the net for making sure all machines used the same protocols etc, but
> nothing helped.
> 

This problem is definitely not unique to Belkin. I have 2 different KVM
switches. Neither is Belkin, one is an old 5+ years linksys. The other
is at home and I don't remember the brand. The linksys switch does not
work at all with wheel mice, probably because it predates them. The
other works most of the time. With 2 Fedora installations I loose the
mouse if I don't use the exact same driver settings for both. I have
never had a problem with Windows 2k and either switch. Of course the
manufactures do most if not all their testing with Windows and not
Linux.





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