Recently, I've had problems with "distant text echos" while editing text documents with web page screen editors. Insert in a line of text, and 5% of the time, some of the characters are inserted in a different line as well. Weird.
I won't go through the whole debug sequence ... I tried easy stuff first; a different keyboard, different mouse, different software, remote login, etc. Remote login worked. My first clue. What I could not easily test was a different USB+DVI Keyboard/Video/Mouse switch (I drive two different computers with it). So I purchased (eBay) a used ioGEAR GCS932UB "identical" to the switch I've used for decades. After moving 16 cables to the new one ... IT WORKS! The old one goes to scrap recycle; a re-purposing scrapper like Free Geek might test it incompletely and give someone else a debug headache. I post this not to brag, but suggest a few more debug and replacement ideas for the rest of you. Electronics can do the darndest things. And I post this to the main list, rather than PLUG-TALK, because an adept software geek may spend way too much time looking for a software problem, rather than a weird hardware problem. I'd rather help them with hardware problems, and they can help me compile "hello.c". :-) Keith L. -- Keith Lofstrom [email protected]
