Re: Making my mouse wheel work on the fly [SOLVED]

["Icebiker" <icebiker@ca.inter.net>]

Hi

This was an old item wherein I had problems with my mouse wheel not working 
when I switched between a Linux and an XP box. I recently solved this 
problem by buying a new KVM. It's a 4 port Aten CS-14 which I got 
cheap-cheap (~US$70 new) on e-bay.

Now my keyboard never goes funny on either XP or Linux and the mouse wheel 
always works on Linux. It's been extremely well behaved for the last 4 
weeks.

I don't know how to generalize this, except perhaps that newer KVMs might be 
more Linux friendly (my DLink was 3+ years old).

/icebiker


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "icebiker" <icebiker@ca.inter.net>
To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2004 15:43
Subject: Re: Making my mouse wheel work on the fly


> Douglas G. Phillips wrote:
>
> > Jacob S <stormspotter@6Texans.net> writes:
> >
> >
> >
> > > > I wonder if it's KVM dependent . . .
> >
> > If, after it does this, does WinXP drop the mouse wheel as well, or does
> > it work as expected when you switch back?
> >
> > Another option that I would try is using GPM to handle the mouse (with
> > the repeater flag set) and tell X to talk to GPM -- that might help -- 
> > or at least you might be able to just bounce GPM and get the mouse talking 
> > correctly.
> The mouse wheel is well behaved, but I have noticed that sometimes the 
> keyboard gets confused (shift gets stuck, etc.). I had to bounce 
> OpenOffice spreadsheet on XP because it started ignoring the keyboard all 
> together. I'm beginning to think that this is a rather shaky proposition 
> at best. Today was a day of heavy switching between the two systems, and I 
> guess that really highlighted the problem.
>
> I looked at some KVM vendors' offerings and the support databases, but 
> none of them really address this issue. I can't even get a sense of 
> whether more expensive units handle this better. I guess I'll just have to 
> be careful.
>
> I'll research gpm, I wasn't aware of it.
>
> thanks - icebiker
>
>
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