RH/FC: Mouse loses sense of location via use of console switchers

[Rodolfo J. Paiz]

At 10:55 6/14/2004, Dan Thurman wrote:
>For those of you who have a battery of servers, and make
>use of a common mouse-keyboard-monitor switcher (aka Belkin
>or similar devices) you might notice that if you switch from
>one server console to another console (that is to redhat/fedora)
>the mouse cursor looses all sense of location and gets *really*
>screwed up.  I have not been able to "reset" the mouse cursor
>to a "sane" position without being forced to reboot the system
>if I want to be able to log into the system.

IIRC, nearly everyone who had this problem was using cheap (read, 
low-quality) KVM switches. OTOH, people who are using better-quality gear 
and people who switch to better-quality gear generally do not have the same 
problem.

Avocent (née Cybex) switches come highly recommended and work well; I have 
two myself. Other very good brands should be just as reliable.

Cheers,

>Thanks to all that have responded in advance,
>~Dan

If anyone has responded in advance, I'd sure like to know how they did it. 
<smile>


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