[H-GEN] KVM issues

[Michael Oliver]

On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 11:32:14 +1000, Sandra Mansell
<fakungabubu at internode.on.net> wrote:

> That's a very good point. It's a 4 port KVM and although it can be
> powered, it isn't currently powered as it didn't seem to need it for
> only 2 computers. I shall pass on the suggestion to my husband to power
> it and see if that makes a difference. The Ubuntu box has a much smaller
> power supply than the Windows box and it might not be coping.

It will be getting power from the keyboard (normal whatever is on
computer 1). Even powered ones don't always provide the mouse
emulation on boot.

The easiest way to rule this out as being your problem is to power the
nix box up with it selected, if you don't get your mouse, then there's
a problem.  If you do, then the KVM does support mouse emulation when
not selected.