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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