Subj : Re: Problem with a KVM Switch
To   : comp.os.linux
From : gmccx
Date : Mon Jul 12 2004 10:27 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'm late seeing this so you may or may not ever see it. My first 
suggestion would be to get a better KVM switch.  Avocent (used to be 
Cybex I think) has always worked well for me.

At my workplace I have an 8 port from them with 2 linux boxes, two Win98 
boxes, one NT, one XP, one 2K server and the 8th open for testing 
whatever I want to plug in there.  There is an occasional mouse/KB 
lockup or odd behavior issue, but the KVM allows a mouse/KB reset to be 
done from it's menu and this has never failed to correct the occasional 
problem.

I don't know for _sure_ that all thier switches have this feature, but I 
would suspect so.  I also suspect they are a little more expensive than 
most of the others, but well worth the difference.

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George

http://people.delphiforums.com/gmcc

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