On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 04:04:11PM -0500, Bill wrote:
> On Monday 31 December 2001 12:25, you wrote:
> > For those of you who had problems with KVMs, particularly with the
> > loss of your mouse when switching between machines, there's a tech
> > support answer in the current Linux Journal.
> (clip)
> > This also explains why the KVM I bought wouldn't work with one of
> > my mice. It was a serial mouse that I tried to use a PS/2 adapter
> > on.
> >
> > Paul
>
> Paul, as a "poor man's kludge" do the "Ctrl+Alt+Fn" key thing to get
> out to a text terminal before flipping the KVM switch. Works just
> fine even if it isn't very pretty.
>
You assume I was in X to begin with. Bad assumption. Bad, bad
assumption. ;-}
Linux doesn't recognize the existence of the mouse when you use a PS/2
to serial adapter this way, and the company that makes the KVM
explicitly says they don't support it.
However, my solution was to just have a separate mouse for each machine.
I still share the monitor and keyboard through the KVM. Mice don't take
up much desk space. ;-}
Paul
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