KVM switch problem
Fred Erickson
frederickson at iname.com
Sun Feb 4 08:47:21 UTC 2007
On Sat, 2007-02-03 at 14:03 -0500, Negative wrote:
> On 1/30/07, Gerhard Magnus <magnus at agora.rdrop.com> wrote:
> I've been trying to get a Belkin USB KVM switch to work with
> two FC6
> boxes. The top of the KVM unit has a pair of illuminated
> buttons that
> are used to manually switch the peripherals from one system to
> the
> other. It seems this would be straightforward but it's
> not. The
> keyboard, monitor and mouse work fine when just one system is
> physically
> plugged into the switch. But with both systems connected to
> it the
> switch seems to have a mind of its own and goes back and forth
> between
> the boxes as soon as I start using the keyboard or
> mouse. Often both
> buttons on the switch are illuminated, as if it were trying to
> deal with
> input from both systems.
>
> Has anyone had a problem like this? Is there a workaround?
>
> Thanks for the help! -- Jerry
I had a similar problem when I replaced my roller/ball mouse that died
with a new optical one. Went back to a roller/ball mouse and everything
was fine again. Go figure.
Fred
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