Re: Making my mouse wheel work on the fly [SOLVED]

[Icebiker]

Hi
This was an old item wherein I had problems with my mouse wheel not working 
when I switched between a Linux and an XP box. I recently solved this 
problem by buying a new KVM. It's a 4 port Aten CS-14 which I got 
cheap-cheap (~US$70 new) on e-bay.

Now my keyboard never goes funny on either XP or Linux and the mouse wheel 
always works on Linux. It's been extremely well behaved for the last 4 
weeks.

I don't know how to generalize this, except perhaps that newer KVMs might be 
more Linux friendly (my DLink was 3+ years old).

/icebiker
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "icebiker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2004 15:43
Subject: Re: Making my mouse wheel work on the fly


Douglas G. Phillips wrote:
Jacob S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

I wonder if it's KVM dependent . . .
If, after it does this, does WinXP drop the mouse wheel as well, or does
it work as expected when you switch back?
Another option that I would try is using GPM to handle the mouse (with
the repeater flag set) and tell X to talk to GPM -- that might help -- 
or at least you might be able to just bounce GPM and get the mouse talking 
correctly.


The mouse wheel is well behaved, but I have noticed that sometimes the 
keyboard gets confused (shift gets stuck, etc.). I had to bounce 
OpenOffice spreadsheet on XP because it started ignoring the keyboard all 
together. I'm beginning to think that this is a rather shaky proposition 
at best. Today was a day of heavy switching between the two systems, and I 
guess that really highlighted the problem.

I looked at some KVM vendors' offerings and the support databases, but 
none of them really address this issue. I can't even get a sense of 
whether more expensive units handle this better. I guess I'll just have to 
be careful.

I'll research gpm, I wasn't aware of it.
thanks - icebiker
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