The 4 port OmniCube is $89.99 retail, I wouldn't call that cheap.

Even if I put the OmniCube on port 2 (which the NetBSD machine is
setup to use), and boot it up, NetBSD doesn't recognise the PS/2
mouse. If I switch back to port 1 (Win2K machine), mouse works
fine. This thing does remember the mouse and keyboard configurations.

The documentation says that it is certified for Win95, Win98, WinNT,
Win2K, Novell Netware 5, TurboLinux and all Linux Distributions.

In fact, I had a Linux Mandrake system here and it worked fine with
the KVM switch. 

FWIW, I've also tried a couple of different mouses on the KVM switch
with the same results.

Regards
Nigel

On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 05:33:29PM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> In article <20010519122144.G18702@nelgin.nu>,
> Nigel Reed <nigel@nelgin.nu> wrote:
> 
> >For what it's worth, I also have Belkin OmniCube, mine is a 4 port.
> >NetBSD wont even recognise there is a mouse connected - if I plug in
> >a mouse directly, NetBSD finds it with no problem. This is with the
> >wsmouse configuration. I just put it down to one of those NetBSDisms.
> >
> >I did try different cables in case that was the issue.
> 
> Cheap kvm switches don't have a way to reset the mouse or store
> its configuration for each port. If one OS set's up the mouse one
> way and a second set's it up differently (as is the case with NetBSD
> and win2k as you have discovered) you lose. It is cheaper and easier
> to have two mice instead of bying an expensive kvm switch. Of course
> this solution does not scale well :-)
> 
> christos

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