Switch box and mouse

[Vaughn L. Treude]

I had a related situation with a KVM switch.  It's a LinkSys 4-way digital
switch.  The problem was that one of my systems is a laptop, and it has a
single keyboard/mouse connector, which you can expand to two connectors with
a special adapter.  When I switched to the laptop, the mouse would go crazy
and create "click" events multiple times per second.  This effect was
independent of operating system.  The LinkSys people said that the switch
was polling the keyboard and this was somehow disturbing the mouse.
Supposedly if I removed a line from the keyboard wire, this would remove the
problem.   Putting a PS/2 to AT keyboard adapter in series with an AT to
PS/2 adapter was supposed to accomplish that effect, but it didn't help.  I
gave up and used a separate mouse for the laptop.  Oh well.

Vaughn Treude
Nakota Software, Inc.

-----Original Message-----
From: Furmanek, Greg <Greg.Furmanek@hit.cendant.com>
To: 'plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us'
<plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
Date: Thursday, November 30, 2000 8:39 AM
Subject: RE: Switch box and mouse


>I have the same situation.
>
>I had to get a second mouse
>and not use with the switch box.
>
>Other option is to get cybax
>digital KVM switch.
>
>I have heard they work just fine with
>Linux.
>
>The Wolf
>
>-> -----Original Message-----
>-> From: Alan Dayley [mailto:adtron.com@snappy.wiredglobal.com]
>-> Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2000 11:27 AM
>-> To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
>-> Subject: Switch box and mouse
>->
>->
>->
>-> I have a monitor, keyboard and mouse switch box.  I can
>-> switch these three
>-> devices between two computers.  It is just a completely
>-> manual switch with
>-> no intelligence or electronics.
>->
>-> I figured I could use it to switch between my Win and RH 6.2
>-> Linux boxes.
>-> It switches but when I switch back to the Linux box, the
>-> mouse movement is
>-> hosed.  The cursor just goes everywhere with the slightest
>-> of mouse motion.
>->
>-> Any ways to prevent this?  (I have done no research
>-> what-so-ever on this
>-> problem.  I thought I would ask before I do any work.  Heh...)
>->
>-> Alan
>->
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>-> |ADayley@adtron.com
>-> |
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