Subj : Re: Problem with a KVM Switch
To   : comp.os.linux
From : Stuart Fuller
Date : Thu Jul 08 2004 04:04 am

The Beast wrote:

> I have a Windows XP Box and a Suse Linux 9.1 box that I am trying to
> use a KVM Switch with.  I have just returned my third switch.  The
> problem is that If I boot the Linux box with the switch set to it it
> works perfectly, but if I switch to the Windows box and switch back,
> the mouse is completely erratic.  I want to know if anyone has made
> this work and if so what they used!  Thanks!
> 

I've had a similar experience, although my "other box" was another Linux 
box, as well as a Windows box.  If I switched to the other box, and back 
again, the mouse wouldn't be erratic, but the cursor would have a high 
degree of acceleration, as if I'd turned up the sensitivity.  I'd go into a 
text console (Ctrl-Alt-F1), and back again to KDE (Ctrl-Alt-F7), and the 
mouse would operate correctly again.

The mouse also seemed to work correctly on the other box.  That was the 
strange part.

This is with a D-Link DKVM-2.

Oh, and I took the other box, put a monitor, keyboard and mouse on it, and 
gave it to my wife to play with.  End of problem. ;^)

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        Stu

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