[H-GEN] KVM issues

[Bradley Marshall]

On Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 08:47:16PM +1000, Sandra Mansell wrote:
> My husband has setup an Ubuntu box alongside his Windows box and hooked
> both up to a shiny new KVM switch. The Windows box works fine, but the
> Ubuntu box seems not to find a mouse. If a mouse is hooked up directly
> to the ps2 port, no problems. He's tried known good KVM cables and ports
> on the switch and still no go.

Is it a powered KVM?  The better KVMs provide a mouse to the box
even when not switched to it.  Unpowered ones rarely do this,
and sometimes don't provide enough signal - mostly for VGA,
but I guess its possible for the mouse too.

Thanks,
Brad
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