On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 14:55 -0500, Claude Jones wrote: > On Tuesday 22 November 2005 2:12 pm, Doug Coats wrote: > > The attitude of replacing hardware to fix a software issue seems > > extreme and wasteful. > > Doug: First off, if you want to get along with the folks on this list, post > your responses at the bottom of the message, not the top. I don't get real > worked up about it, but some do, and I can understand their point of view. > You'll find that some of the most helpful folks here will just tend to ignore > you if you don't adhere to this 'netiquette' - your call... > > As to your response, if you want to try and solve the problem, have at it. > Especially if your time lost is not 'expensive'...time wasted is money wasted > to some. In googling this issue a couple of years ago, it was stated in a > couple of places that the issue with Belkin was hardware related - the > circuitry design that syncs the mouse up to the next device is the problem - > it can't lock in. I suspect there's some truth to that - the device works in > some situations, and not others, because the circuit design is marginal, but > adequate to lower common denominator applications. I'm in the video world, > and sync problems are a fact of life in my life. > > Adding psmouse.proto=bare to the grub kernel line, as suggested by someone > else in the thread, does work, by the way. If you have a wheel mouse, it will > disable the wheel. ---- indeed this is sage advice. I live without mouse wheel cuz I am too cheap I guess to switch kvm switches. Belkin KVM switches just don't work well with RHEL/Fedora and haven't for a long time. Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
