> Dear PLUG members,
> 
> The following from a colleague.  I have done google'ing, altavista'ing 
and 
> so forth.  Closest I come is the suggestion that some cheap kvm switches 
> give this problem.  I have no idea what breed of kvm switch my colleague 
is 
> using but any thoughts would be valued!

I have had similar problems in the past with cheap switchboxes - although 
I can use my switchbox between my 3 linux boxen fine, if I boot my main 
desktop to windows and then switch I get all sorts of weird problems, 
especially when switching from the alpha which doesnt have the mouse 
passed through. Ive had all sorts of mouse and keyboard lockups at one 
time or another.

BTW, I noticed that when installing Mandrake 9 beta 4 the other day, upon 
selecting intellimouse explorer (which is also what I have) the 'test 
mouse' display went completely nuts for a while and then all of a sudden 
started to work. One of my intelli-mice causes all sorts of problems (it 
has a fault which MS refuse to admit to because it only happens randomly) 
so my gf is stuck with it on her mac (every now and then I hear her 
scream 'f****n mouse!'). Im not too sure that intellimice are all that 
crash-hot, maybe changing mice will solve his problem.

Regards

