[CentOS] Annoying Mouse Tricks

Juan C. Valido jvalidolnx at juanyjosefina.com
Mon Apr 23 21:50:11 UTC 2007


On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 07:10 +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
> 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?

I've seen that before. I had to change my KVM. The newer Belkin and
Trendnet work. If you get a new one make sure it says that it's
compatible with Linux or Unix, I had the same problem with Solaris 10
but not anymore...




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