On 8 Mar, Mark Vojkovich wrote: > On Sat, 8 Mar 2003, Brian McGrew wrote: > >> Hopefully, someone can shed some light on this for me! >> >> I'm running RedHat 8.0 with all the latest and greatist patches as of today >> (3/8/03). >> >> I have a Belkin OmniView 2 port KVM switch. My Linux box on one port and >> WinXP on the other. Switching back and forth between the two seems to give >> me grief with my mouse in X. Windows is not effected by this problem; only >> X. It seems that when I switch back to X, the mouse wants to jump around >> randomly and clicks at random. Anyone ever hear of this before? >> >> Thanks, > > It's kindof standard behavior. XFree86 doesn't have mouse protocol > error handling so when it loses state during the switch you get junk. > VT switching away and back and it should reset the mouse. >
Except that the Belkin OmniView is supposed to maintain proper protocol during switches, etc. I have a 4-port Belkin SE and never see anything like this. I've only seen it on dumb mechanical switches. R Horn _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
