>>-----Original Message----- >>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Joe Burks >>Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 7:29 AM >>... >>I have an optical intellimouse connected through a Belkin KVM Switch (a >>cool little device that let's me hook up 4 computers to just one keyboard, >>video monitor and mouse). Occasionally after switching between ports I >>lose the mouse on the Linux machine. It sort of bobs around, opens up menus >>at random and other things. It looked to me like some kind of serial >>framing error, but I'm not quite sure exactly how a PS/2 mouse >>behaves. Windows would see a similar mouse problem, but would recover >>quickly so I'd only see one or two jerky movements or random menu openings >>before the mouse would return to normal operation. It's been a little over six months since this topic was current, but here is some more info. In the intervening months I have done, in the following order: (1) installed Debian potato (2) share the console with another box using the LinkSys two port KVM switch (3) installed SUSe 7.1 But fundamentally, I've always been attached to Mandrake so yesterday I installed MandrakeLinux 8.1b2 - a *really* sweet process incidentally! I found that I had to remove my "mouse", which is a Logitech MarbleMan track-ball, from the KVM and connect it directly to the computer When attached to the KVM it exhibited the behavior that Joe experienced and more. When the machine first boots there cursor comes up in mid-screen. As soon as the mouse is moved it warps to the furthest upper right hand corner of the screen and the pop-up menus flicker as the ball is moved. However, unlike Joe's experience, restarting the x-server did not cure things. So it looks like Mandrake has some sort of bug in the mouse driver they use or perhaps a configuration conflict. This KVM has worked flawlessly for months with Debian and SUSe. It would be nice if they could fix it before 8.1 release. Incidentally, the track-ball itself was declared as a plain old generic mouse during the install process; which is has always been just fine to date. For the record, the LinkSys KVM is one of the nicest I have ever used. I picked it up from an e-store for $60. For my money I got the two-port switch *and* the cables. Plus, the LinkSys is powered directly from the keyboard/serial ports. So you don't have to tie up a plug with another darn wall-wart. It would really be nice to have it work with MandrakeLinux -rick
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