i also have a belkin switch. and i've never had this problem without me
accidentaly pulling the cables out when moving things. i've had 2 linux
machines and a win98 box on here before.
On Tue, 23 Jan 2001 01:26:13 -0600, Kojo Idrissa whispered to the router:
!!I have two machines in my office (NT4 and Storm), and I've had this
happen
!! too. All I have to do is switch away from the frozen machine, then
switch
!! right back and the mouse comes back fine. Have you tried that? It's
!! happened on both machines.
!!
!! I've got a Belkin 4 port KVM switch.
!!
!! HTH,
!! At 08:31 PM 1/22/01 +0000, you wrote:
!! >eduardo reyes wrote:
!! > >
!! > > I recently bought a KVM switch and ran into an odd thing... When
I
!! > switched
!! > > over from my storm linux into something else like windoze2k and
switch back
!! > > to storm, my mouse stops working.... So i restart my system and
the mouse
!! > > starts working fine again, but when i switch over to a different
!! > system and
!! > > switch back to storm it stops working.... has anyone ran into
this
!! > > before??????
!! > >
!! > > it's only happening with storm.....
!! > > _________________________________________________________________
!! >
!! >Well if it's happening ony with Storm you're lucky.I have 4 switches
at
!! >work
!! >and they all behave the same way.Tested with
!! >Win98,98SE,WinMe,Win2K,Linux
!! >(Debian,Storm,Mandrake,RH).
!! >The pro-switches(12 inputs)seems to behave better but they're still
!! >losing the mouse occasionally .
!! > Nothing you can do,really except get a way more expensive switch.I
!! >usually
!! >use them now only for monitors,and have separate KBD's and
mices,since
!! >most
!! >brnad names copmuters won't even detect a keyboard through switch.
!! >
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