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.
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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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