[CentOS] Annoying Mouse Tricks

[John Summerfield]

Mark Weaver wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Something that just has been annoying the daylights out of me for the
> past 9 months with no resolution in site. I've got a Hawking HKS 104 4
> port KVM connecting my Linux workstation, 2 servers, and my wife's
> windows workstation to one monitor, mouse, and keyboard.
> 
> No matter how I toggle back and forth whether by keyboard or directly on
> the device once I come back to the linux desktop scroll wheel on mouse
> no longer functions. Except for a brief time while running CentOS 4.4
> it's always been this way. I've googled until there were just no more
> places left on the internet and searched through CentOS archives until
> I'd read everything from balls to bones without finding any helpful
> information.
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas or thoughts on how a fella might resolve
> this? When I restart the machine (Linux) the scroll mouse works
> normally, that is until I toggle to the windows machine and back again
> or to one of the servers and back again. Then the mouse functions like a
> two button mouse not having a scroll wheel. I appear to be stuck in KVM
> hell with this.
> 

I have problems, but not yours.

1. Replug the mouse?
2. Replug everything in the KVM? Sometimes mine (Laser junk) requires this.
3. Different mouse?



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