On 4/23/07, Juan C. Valido jvalidolnx@juanyjosefina.com wrote:
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.
- Replug the mouse?
- Replug everything in the KVM? Sometimes mine (Laser junk) requires this.
- 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...
I've had the same problem with Belkin with PS/2 connections (erratic mouse movements after switching from Windows). But after a change to Aten KVM with USB kbd/mouse everything works as expected when switching between Windows and Linux boxes and with working scoll wheel on the mouse.
- Christian