[iyonix-support] Re: Belkin KVM (MacMini) switch2

On 27 Nov, Gary Locock <gary@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In article <4e8bee803asteve.pampling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Steven Pampling
>    <steve.pampling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 26 Nov, Gary Locock <gary@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > > Can anyone offer a suggestion as to why, when my Iyonix is booted
> > > through the non-active connection, it is frozen when I return to the
> > > Iyo desktop?

> > No device detected on the mouse, keyboard and display ports.

> There is a device; the switch! Or have I misunderstood?

Some cheap KVMs do not provide the response on the lines to the machine
that are expected.
The sort of behaviour you describe happens with various PCs on some KVMs.
It tends to depend on how fussy the machine is.
Perhaps the Iyonix needs an OS modification to ensure that the system will
start with a specific port setup if nothing is detected

> > At least one of those is going to generate an error, and not least if
> > it can't see a mouse and hence set the right parameters for that
> > device how is it supposed to sort things out later?

> > What happens if you boot normally and plug in a second USB mouse (or
> > keyboard)?

> Iyos (IME) commonly throw up a "no keyboard detected" even without a
> KVM.  No setting is required on the display port, surely, because that's
> done with a MDF plus auto config of the Panel??  That leaves the mouse. 
> In the ordinary way of things, replugging a mouse is a good way of
> unfreezing it when it occurs (=often, with O2), and I do occasionally
> run with 2 mice connected, or a mouse and a graphics pad, and nothing
> untoward occurs.  Finally, many people seem to have complete success
> with a KVM, so empirically it seems to be a problemette with this
> Belkin.  Not too serious, just makes me curious.

As you have already established:   Belkin != Belkin != Belkin

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Steve Pampling
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