Re: KVM switch recomendation?
On Wed, 07 Jan 2004 at 03:01 GMT, Greg Norris penned:
> On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 10:53:21AM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote:
>> I have a Belkin 4-port (don't recall the exact model, but OmniView
>> sounds right), and while the keystroke aspect was fine, it didn't
>> interact with X well at all. Switching back to a machine running X
>> would result in the mouse crawling along the lower left corner of the
>> screen. I would always have to log out and back in again to fix it.
>
> I've seen this behaviour in the past, when using one of their non-USB
> models. The problem is that the KVM doesn't support wheel mice, and
> the rodent gets confused when it isn't re-initialized properly after a
> switch. You can avoid the problem by configuring it as a standard
> 3-button mouse, at the cost of wheel-scrolling.
>
Yeah, after reading a few posts here, I'm starting to get the feeling
that you're right. I may soon brush the dust off that Belkin and check
it out =)
--
monique
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