KVM issue

Luke Yelavich themuso at themuso.com
Tue Oct 26 14:27:04 UTC 2004


On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 12:09:55AM EST, amerigo5 amerigo5 wrote:
> Is Ubuntu KVM (Belkin) friendly? With other Linux distributions, I use the 
> following keys: Ctrl + Alt + F5 before switching from Linux box to other 
> non-Linux box and then Ctrl + Alt + F7 after returning to the Linux box 
> from other non-Linux box and then I would have a normal usage of the KVM 
> (keyboard, video and mouse/mice). With Ubuntu, doing the above key sequence 
> or not would make the mouse uncontrollable (jumping all over the desktop). 
> Is there a way to avoid this in Ubuntu when using KVW? Thank you.

Did any of the other distros you tried use the 2.6 kernel?

I have much the same problem with a D-Link KVM here, and it only ever 
happens with 2.6 kernels. I generally ahve to unload the psmouse module, 
and reload it again to get everything working as it should.

Luke




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