F12 failing with KVM switches

Paul Allen Newell pnewell at cs.cmu.edu
Sun Jan 17 05:29:48 UTC 2010


Craig White wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-01-16 at 19:20 +0000, BeartoothHOS wrote:
>   
>> 	I normally run four PCs behind a KVM switch. The same ones worked 
>> fine for years, with several Fedora releases, and three or four switches 
>> as those wore out.
>>
>> 	Sometime since I installed F12, I began seeing a nasty trick. Any 
>> one machine works fine, so long as you stay on it; but if you switch 
>> around for just a few minutes, you'll find it frozen -- not seeing 
>> keyboard nor mouse, not recoverable by anything less than the reset 
>> button -- when you come back.
>>
>> 	I've tried changing keyboard and mouse. I even bought a new KVM 
>> switch. 
>>
>> 	In case it's relevant, F12 has also been having a lot more 
>> trouble with my HP w2207h 1680x1050 LCD monitor than any of the last 
>> several releases.
>>     
> ----
> my laptop and desktop (both Fedora 12) share a Belkin 4 port KVM with my
> Windows desktop and my CentOS server with no issues.
>
> Craig
>
>
>   
3 HPs (F12, F11, and F9) plus a friend's XP laptop and no problems aside 
from focus issues (already posted too much on that).

I am also on a Belkin 4 port KVM.

Paul


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