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KVM issues on older boxes (XP/LINUX)

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ITGL72

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I have a few older PII models I slapped together that work great for me for testing and playing around with Linux and Windows operating systems. I have a 4 port KVM (electric powered) that I use to bounce back and forth between them.

On one of the boxes (running XP) I cannot get the mouse (ps2) to come on. But if I plug a mouse into it directly, I have mouse interaction. ANY WAY TO FORCE THIS BOX TO RECOGNIZE THE KVM PLUGGED IN MOUSE? BIOS setting? Some magic swoop I am unaware of?

Lastly, for those that use Linux, I have had some machines on higher end KVM's (At work I have an 8 port Belkin, using SMOOTHWALL and some with FEDORA/RH) that seem to stall the KVM device. If I manually press the buttons on the KVM device to go through the machines I can get through, but if I'm pressing the hot keys on the keyboard to jump from box to box, and if I get to say, the SMOOTHWALL box it just stalls there. (Forcing me to get up, or roll my chair to the KVM and manually press that button 🙂 )

These are things I have been wondering about for some time and would welcome some insight, comments, and or suggestions from others.

Thanks for listening!
 
Re the mouse problem on one of your computers - you might want to swap cables around - see if it is a prob with a cable, or that port.
 
Ok, lets get this straight,

If you plug straight in to computer, no problem.
If you plug into any port in kvm, no go.
If you plug into kvm and use different cables and play around with ports on kvm, no go.
If you plug only 1 or2 other computers into kvm and the problem computer, what happens?
 
1. correct
2. correct
3. correct
4. There currently *are* 2 other PII's plugged into the KVM and they work fine.

🙂
 
Must be having some signal problem along the line somewhere.

All the lines have been tested except that the computer itself........ doh.

Give the ps2 port at the problem computer a very good blow - got any canned air? Might be some dust [if you are lucky] in the port?!?!?!?!
 
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