RE: mouse through switchbox

2000-07-06 Thread Bill Carlson
On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Mike Lewis wrote: > Hey Charles, > > I've used Cybex (www.cybex.com) for quite a few years now. They are > generally pricey and do require their own cables (also pricey). They do > have a cheaper model 2 or 4 port though that does NOT require special cables > and is quite a

Re: mouse through switchbox

2000-07-05 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 05 Jul 2000, Bret Hughes wrote: > And yes I use X some on servers. Sure make print setups WAY easier. and I > manage DNS using linuxconf with absolutly no problems that I am aware of. The > cool thing about that is the reverse lookups are configured at the same time as > the forward with

Re: mouse through switchbox

2000-07-05 Thread Bret Hughes
John Aldrich wrote: > Hmm...interesting. We've got some HP KVM switches here, and they seem > to work OK. 'Course we don't have much use for X on a server, so > I'll have to admit I've never tired a KVM on a system running X. > John The compaq KVMS work great even in X. I think they

Re: mouse through switchbox

2000-07-05 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 05 Jul 2000, Marshall Dunlap wrote: > > FWIW, we are using a Belkin Omniview box and when I try to run x through it > our Linux box can't find the mouse. If I take that same mouse and connect > it directly to the Linux box then there's no problem so it has something to > do with the Omni

Re: mouse through switchbox

2000-07-05 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 05 Jul 2000, Adam Goucher wrote: > > If you're already using an ELECTRONIC KVM switch, I don't > > know what to tell you. :-) > > Unfortuntly I am ... a StarView if I recall correctly. (Not at the machine > ATM). So, I would say that that is one kvm switch to avoid (unless I can > figure

Re: mouse through switchbox

2000-07-05 Thread Marshall Dunlap
Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 10:01:32 -0400 From: John Aldrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: mouse through switchbox Message-Id: <00070510023309.29089@front> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit On Wed, 05 Jul 2000, Charles Galpin wrote: > On

Re: mouse through switchbox

2000-07-05 Thread Adam Goucher
> If you're already using an ELECTRONIC KVM switch, I don't > know what to tell you. :-) Unfortuntly I am ... a StarView if I recall correctly. (Not at the machine ATM). So, I would say that that is one kvm switch to avoid (unless I can figure out how to make it work) under Linux (works brilliant

RE: mouse through switchbox

2000-07-05 Thread Mike Lewis
ne of these quite happily. Mail me off the list if you need more info. Thanks, Mike > -Original Message- > From: Charles Galpin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2000 4:56 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: mouse through switchbox > > > O

Re: mouse through switchbox

2000-07-05 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 05 Jul 2000, Charles Galpin wrote: > On this note, I'd like to hear recomendations of electronic KVM switch > brands please. > Belkin is inexpensive and I've seen the ads in the *Warehouse magazines stating that it's certified to work with Linux. :-) Plus someone here stated that it works

Re: mouse through switchbox

2000-07-05 Thread Charles Galpin
On this note, I'd like to hear recomendations of electronic KVM switch brands please. On Tue, 4 Jul 2000, John Aldrich wrote: > Is this a rotary switchbox or an electronic KVM switch? The > rotary switchbox doesn't work well in a lot of cases, I've > been told. Go ahead and spend the $100+ for a

Re: mouse through switchbox

2000-07-04 Thread Bret Hughes
Adam Goucher wrote: > Hi. I'm having a hard time getting my mouse to work through my new kvm > switchbox. It works fine for the nt box, but the mouse doesnt respond in > x. Hopefully this is not one of the things 'that need work'. Heres the > setup... > > linux box (ps/2 port) -> ps/2-to-serial c

Re: mouse through switchbox

2000-07-04 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 04 Jul 2000, Adam Goucher wrote: > Hi. I'm having a hard time getting my mouse to work through my new kvm > switchbox. It works fine for the nt box, but the mouse doesnt respond in > x. Hopefully this is not one of the things 'that need work'. Heres the > setup... > > linux box (ps/2 port

Re: mouse through switchbox

2000-07-04 Thread David Talkington
Not to be discouraging, but I've noted that mice frequently have trouble with these boxes under the best of conditions. Some PS/2 ports just won't work with them at all, and some operating systems (as you've seen) handle some configurations better than others. I frequently have to reboot a part

Re: mouse through switchbox

2000-07-04 Thread kdeepak
Hi Adam, There is no problem if you are changing over from ps/2 to serial port Use the mouseconfig tool (be in root ) to achieve your objective. Please get back to me if you are unsuccessful Regards K.Deepak ---