On Thu, 2004-06-24 at 10:42, Claude Jones wrote: > Roger: I, too, am having the KVM problem. I'm a very new user, so pardon if the question > is simplistic. Once I use your method and get the log-on prompt, how do I switch back to > the GUI? > > > If you are switching the monitor as well as keyboard and mouse. > Try leaving the machine on a text session. > I found that when my mouse goes wild after a switch, doing a CTRL+ALT+F1 > and straight back to the gui tamed it. > Worth a try any way, move the mose a bit and then switch back to the gui. > regards Roger > The best fix I have found so far for the "crazy mouse" problem is the following: Have seen this problem as well on the Belkin KVMs. I came across this item on another list. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2004-February/msg00739.html They say to put psmouse.proto=bare on the kernel command line or proto=bare on the psmouse module command line. There was some discussion of two other options imps and exps. exps apparently causes the mouse jumping problem. imps appears to get a mouse with a wheel working as expected. I used the imps option which works great on my system. -- Scot L. Harris webid@xxxxxxxxxx Not to laugh, not to lament, not to curse, but to understand. -- Spinoza