[ale] KVM switch?

Jeff Hubbs hbbs at comcast.net
Sat May 27 13:16:27 EDT 2006


But could non-selected machines boot up OK?

Courtney Thomas wrote:

>I also use Belkin [6 port OmniView] and have no problems whatsoever with 
>half a dozen OSes of various flavors and it was cheap.
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>HTH,
>Courtney
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>Christopher Fowler wrote:
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>>On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 18:33 -0400, roberth1954 at aim.com wrote:
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>>>I have a Belkin "OmniCube" and have a problem with mouse sync
>>>too... As it turned out, the problem was NOT Linux but was actually
>>>Gnome. I tried it with at least 5 different distro's and the ones that
>>>use Gnome (Ubuntu, Fedora) have a problem (it started with Gnome
>>>v2) but, the ones with KDE (Kubuntu, Suse) are fine. I would set the
>>>KVM switch on my Gnome box and as long as I didn't change the port it
>>>would work great all day. However, if I ever changed to another box, I
>>>would literally have to power boot the Gnome box to make it work
>>>again. (ctl+alt+bs did not work)
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>>I was thinking my PC was screwy.  My problem is even more weird.  I have
>>a Belkin 2 port.  This happens when I switch ports.  Even rebooting the
>>Linux box does not help.  This switch gets its power from the PS/2 ports
>>to to get my mouse back in sync I have to power off the switch by
>>turning everything off and unplugging power to everything.  This in turn
>>"restarts" the KVM.  It then works fine until I switch again.  I now use
>>a USB mouse and manually switch that mouse as needed.  I've given up on
>>getting the KVM to work and based on the comments here it maybe a
>>problem that is not solved by using another KVM.
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