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USB keyboard/mouse with USB/KVM switch?

USB keyboard/mouse with USB/KVM switch?

Post by Ronald Bruc » Tue, 11 Sep 2001 01:22:14



I'm trying to use a MiniView 4-port USB/KVM switch on three machines:
a Macintosh running OS X, a Pentium running SuSE (7.1, I think, but the
keyboard/mouse is frozen right now), and an Athlon running Mandrake
8.0.

The Mac works, but the damned Linux installations "lose contact" with
USB when I switch back to them.  There is usually a one or two-second
delay in OS X before contact is re-established, but I can live with
that; I **cannot** live with the others' mindless idiocy.  Even Windows
knows USB better than this!!

Is there some different version of the USB stuff which will work?  I'm
running kernel 2.4.3 on Mandrake,  dunno what on SuSE (because I
switched...)

--Ron Bruck

 
 
 
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USB keyboard/mouse with USB/KVM switch?

Post by Marcus Laue » Tue, 11 Sep 2001 03:16:56



> I'm trying to use a MiniView 4-port USB/KVM switch on three machines:
> a Macintosh running OS X, a Pentium running SuSE (7.1, I think, but the
> keyboard/mouse is frozen right now), and an Athlon running Mandrake
> 8.0.

> The Mac works, but the damned Linux installations "lose contact" with
> USB when I switch back to them.  There is usually a one or two-second
> delay in OS X before contact is re-established, but I can live with
> that; I **cannot** live with the others' mindless idiocy.  Even Windows
> knows USB better than this!!

> Is there some different version of the USB stuff which will work?  I'm
> running kernel 2.4.3 on Mandrake,  dunno what on SuSE (because I
> switched...)

> --Ron Bruck

        I have a question.  Are you running the USB daemon (usbd)?

                                                            Marcus

 
 
 
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