Hard Lock with Fedora Core 1

[Chris Jones]

On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 23:24, Small, Jim wrote:
> Ugghhh!!!
> 
> I think I know what the problem is.  I remember pulling my hair out with Red
> Hat Linux 7.X.
> 
> For some reason, Red Hat Linux does not like KVMs.  I believe it's something
> with the mouse driver.  I'm using a Autoview 400 KVM with a type 5 Sun
> keyboard.  I haven't had problems with many other O/S, but Red Hat just
> doesn't like KVMs.  Even just using the console, it will lock up.  Sure
> enough, as soon as I plugged in a standard keyboard and mouse (directly) it
> appears to run fine--no hard locks.
> 

I have not had this experience on FC1. I run two PC's (one with FC1, and
the other with Win2k). I also have a Belkin KVM to free up my desktop.
When first installed, I had a Logitech wheelmouse and whenever I
switched from one PC to the other, the mouse would go wild. I eventually
solved this problem by disabling the wheel option(s) on the mouse, since
when I have had _no_ problems whatsoever when switching. I never really
used the wheel options anyway, so do not miss them, and I certainly do
not miss the "wild" mouse activity.

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