On 15 Aug, david wrote: > mine is ps2 ... that may be the problem. There have been a few problems > reported on these things. Might be time for a new one.
I use a Belkin KVM at work. When I switch between computers, it takes several seconds for the computer to detect the mouse and keyboard - the video switches across faster! You can check this for yourself by tapping the caps lock key and seeing when the LED finally starts responding. I find (on FC2) that the mouse will go crazy if I start moving it before it's properly detected, I think because X starts receiving input at a random place in the bytestream from the mouse - so it can't break the packets up into sensible mouse events. Incidentally, Windows XP doesn't suffer the same problem - it must have a more robust scheme for syncing the input stream from the mouse. If this theory is right, it may mean that Belkin isn't the only KVM that will cause problems. But it suffers from loss of knowledge about the state of the Control key - if I'm in vi and rest my finger on the control key and think for a while before hitting b, vi gets a plain old "b", not a ctrl-b. I believe this is another consequence of the Belkin firmware - it assumes that a Ctrl key held on for more than 10 secs means that the user flipped to another computer, and it should ignore the Ctrl press. luke -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
