On Sun, 2004-05-02 at 21:34, amsm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Hi, > > A few months back, I tried a Belkin 4-port "SOHO" KVM switch in my then setup > of RH 7.3 firewall/gateway machine, RH9 workstation (mostly running X) and > Win2K box. > > I found that whenever I switched out to the RH7 or Win2k machines, on return > to the RH9 machine, the mouse was uncontrollable. Apparently it's a known > issue with Belkin switches and X. I tried the various suggestions I found > on the net for making sure all machines used the same protocols etc, but > nothing helped. > This problem is definitely not unique to Belkin. I have 2 different KVM switches. Neither is Belkin, one is an old 5+ years linksys. The other is at home and I don't remember the brand. The linksys switch does not work at all with wheel mice, probably because it predates them. The other works most of the time. With 2 Fedora installations I loose the mouse if I don't use the exact same driver settings for both. I have never had a problem with Windows 2k and either switch. Of course the manufactures do most if not all their testing with Windows and not Linux.
