On May 19,  1:34pm, nigel@nelgin.nu (Nigel Reed) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: kvm switch disrupts mouse input

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

This is 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.

This does not mean much... It is mostly marketting speach, because the
kvm switch is affected more by the hardware you plug into into it rather
than the software.

| 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.

BTW, there was a problem in revision 1.6 of pckbc.c that would not probe
certain mice. This is supposed to be fixed in /current.

christos