FC4 - KVM mouse needing reset

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Tue Nov 22 22:35:57 UTC 2005


On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 14:55 -0500, Claude Jones wrote:
> On Tuesday 22 November 2005 2:12 pm, Doug Coats wrote:
> > The attitude of replacing hardware to fix a software issue seems
> > extreme and wasteful.
> 
> Doug: First off, if you want to get along with the folks on this list, post 
> your responses at the bottom of the message, not the top. I don't get real 
> worked up about it, but some do, and I can understand their point of view. 
> You'll find that some of the most helpful folks here will just tend to ignore 
> you if you don't adhere to this 'netiquette' - your call...
> 
> As to your response, if you want to try and solve the problem, have at it. 
> Especially if your time lost is not 'expensive'...time wasted is money wasted 
> to some. In googling this issue a couple of years ago, it was stated in a 
> couple of places that the issue with Belkin was hardware related - the 
> circuitry design that syncs the mouse up to the next device is the problem - 
> it can't lock in. I suspect there's some truth to that - the device works in 
> some situations, and not others, because the circuit design is marginal, but 
> adequate to lower common denominator applications. I'm in the video world, 
> and sync problems are a fact of life in my life. 
> 
> Adding psmouse.proto=bare to the grub kernel line, as suggested by someone 
> else in the thread, does work, by the way. If you have a wheel mouse, it will 
> disable the wheel. 
----
indeed this is sage advice.

I live without mouse wheel cuz I am too cheap I guess to switch kvm
switches.

Belkin KVM switches just don't work well with RHEL/Fedora and haven't
for a long time.

Craig


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