[olug] Erros using Zonet KVM Switch

[Nathan Rotschafer (Hotmail.com)]

Actually to clarify I have a Belkin that works fine under red hat but not any 
other distro.  Now the problem is that mine is NOT powered.  The constant 
power keeps X thinking there is a mouse there and is supposed to fix the 
problem; however, when I tried a power brick on my Belkin it still failed to 
solve the problem and another member of OLUG has a Belkin KVM that has the 
same problem in X.  The two solutions I found is:

1) Don't use a KVM with linux which is just insane and
2) When you switch and come back switch to your virtual console 1 (Alt-Ctrl-1) 
and then go to virtual console 7 which is the X console (Alt-Ctrl-7) and that 
fixes it.

I hope this is somewhat helpful.

Thanks,
Nate Rotschafer

P.S. This is written on my Dell Inspiron 8100 with Gentoo Linux 1.4rc4 :-)

On Monday 09 June 2003 03:37 pm, CM Miller wrote:
> --- Craig Wolf <cjwolf at mpsomaha.org> wrote:
> > I have a Belkin also, 4-port.  Pay the extra money
> > to get one with a power brick.  I did not get the
> > powered one and it will get a little "funky" when
> > switching on me, but it always starts working after
> > a few seconds of figuring out the mouse and keyboard
> > are REALLY there.
>
> (***Sigh***)  I'm typing this from the lobby of DIT
> while they look over this Zonet KVM box.  The guy
> tested it out on a windows box and said it works, what
> is wrong with it.  I told him he needs to test it on a
> Linux box.
>
> But it says 'works with linux on the box'...
>
> I guess you can't believe everythign you read, so I'm
> off to CompUSA to try a Belkin KVM.
>
> Plus, since I opened the box, there is a 10%
> restocking fee...ouch!!!  This hurst a meiser like me.
>
>
> So the moral of this story is don't use Zonet KVM, if
> your running Linux.
>
> -Chris
>
> =====
> GTFG
>
> GAIM ID:  cmmiller1973
>
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