On Tue, 2004-06-01 at 15:40 -0500, admin@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > I have a user that has two PC's connected to a Belkin 4 port KVM switch. > > One PC is a Windows XP/FC2 dual boot. > The other PC is a FC2 test server running KDE. > > When he switches from one computer to another, the Windows one works > fine. But when he switches to the Fedora box, the mouse jumps all over > the screen. > > The keyboard is a Logitech Elite Keyboard and the mouse is a > Intellimouse Explorer 3.0. > > Anyone know how to fix the mouse problem on the FC2 box? They keyboard > still works fine after switching, its just the mouse that is having > problems. > The KVM causes problems when you use a wheel mouse and tell Linux it is a wheel mouse. It tries to emulate the mouse when it isn't connected to a computer for input. The mouse it emulates is a non-wheel mouse, and hence causes the problem. So you can either reconfigure the mouse on the Linux box to non-wheel, or replace the KVM. There are a variety of temporary workarounds, but no solution I have found. I own a Belkin 4port ps/2 kvm and ended up replacing it with a Iogear Miniview SE 4port ps/2 kvm. The Iogear does the emulation properly, at least for the wheel mice. As for more complex mice with extra button I haven't dared.
