[Novalug] mouse - KVM woes

Moe moel@patriot.net
Sat May 12 21:30:19 EDT 2007


Looks like you have some ratty mice, but what did you expect.  The 
REAL Beetles do not have a grille -- that lid in front is the trunk, 
not the hood.

Moe
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Beartooth wrote:
> 
>         For years out of mind (well, several, anyway; 2 - 4 at
> least) I've been running four or five machines behind a generic
> Chinese import KVM switch. The mice till now have all been USB
> Logitech, with an adapter to PS/2. The KVM switch and the
> computers have also all used PS/2 for mice & keyboards, and still
> do.
> 
>         The other day I found some cute little mice made (I
> thought) to look like classic blue Volkswagen beetles, which
> swarmed the country in such profusion in the Sixties -- or close
> enough, anyway. (I took them for poor imitations; my otherwise
> favorite tech disillusioned me today by pointing out that with
> that grill, they can only be BMWs; pfui; Jo & I both had Beetles
> -- OLD Beetles. Let them be Beetles. In drag, if you insist, but
> Beetles.)
> 
>         They're a fun toy, feel decent in the hand, and work as
> well as any, with blue LEDs behind the headlights that make them
> easy to spot in the litter on the desk.
> 
>         BUT. But, but, but. You put one behind the KVM switch,
> and the computers can't see it. You shut them all *down*,
> frcryinoutloud, and reboot each one separately, with the new
> mouse. It does fine -- not only on a USB port, but through its
> own mouse port with the adapter.
> 
>         So you put the mouse back behind the KVM switch -- and no
> machine can see it.
> 
>         So you go through the whole nine yards *again*, this time
> with each machine connected directly not only to the mouse (via
> adapter) but also to keyboard & monitor -- just as if you were
> installing a new release of Fedora. (It's the most tedious part
> of that job.)
> 
>         All is fine, right? Wrong! Go back behind the KVM switch,
> and the machines *still* don't see the mouse.
> 
>         All right, maybe one mouse is defective somehow. Go
> through -- what is it by now? nine cubed yards? -- with a
> different blue mouse.
> 
>         Result : unchanged.
> 
>         Sure it's a silly toy. If it comes this close to working
> (and the old ones're getting pretty worn, afaict -- you have to
> bash on the buttons (no pun intended)), it blankety-well
> *oughtta* work right.
> 
> --
> Beartooth Implacable, Curmudgeon On Line
> Know your enemies. They are your leaders.
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