[TriLUG] Keyboard problems

[Tom Woods]

Shawn,

If you're running an Avocent (or Cybex) SwitchView, try the following to 
do a "mouse reset":

Hit Ctrl-Ctrl-m-r (don't type the -'s) and hit enter.  If that doesn't 
work try the following.

Press and hold NumLock on the keypad (shift-key style) and hit - (also 
on the keypad) then type mr

Tom Woods

William Sutton wrote:

>I have that with a Belkin KVM under various versions of Linux AND under 
>win98.  Pretty sure that's just a KVM issue :)
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>William
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>On Mon, 1 Mar 2004 staylor at openfieldsolutions.com wrote:
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>>I have never seen this problem but I have had problems with RH 7 and 8 on 
>>a KVM where my mouse would act wonky all of a sudden and the only way to 
>>regain control was rebooting or pulling the mouse out of the KVM and 
>>plugging it back in again.
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>>Shawn
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>>Having a world of problems with my FC1 box.  I installed FC1 both at work
>>and at home.  I am having no problems with my home install, but at work
>>it's a different story.  The machine is a P3 650MHz with 192MB ram.  My
>>problem is that when I am typing every so often the screen appears to
>>freeze for a split second and then what ever character I last typed gets
>>repeated.  It is really quite annoying.  I upgraded to KDE 3.2 on both
>>machines and only this one is giving me head aches.  I tried a new
>>keyboard but with no luck, I fiddled with the control panel to see if
>>there were any settings I could adjust there but other then that I don't
>>know where to look for resolve!  I have googled for hours, but I can't get
>>a search phrased right to return any good results.  Anyone else
>>seen/solved a similar problem?
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>>Thanks in advance,
>>Steve
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