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ms mouse and kvm switch
Authored by: jimhill on Jul 12, '03 03:00:02AM

Yes, this post is six months late and (rough estimate) 481 dollars short, but I can now concur with the poster before me: my only panics are coming if I switch between machines with my Belkin/IOGear USB KVM. Switch rapidly, anyway. If I don't "come back" to the Mac for a minute or so, I'll be fine, but if I flip away and back, a panic's more than likely. The kbd is a Microsoft Natural Pro and the mouse is a Logitech Cordless TrackMan. Just hoping to provide more data for future Googlers...


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ms mouse and kvm switch
Authored by: TvE on Aug 14, '03 06:00:49PM

Me too(!) - Nice to see that I am not alone, it was really beginning to annoy me, but now I can see that I am not the reason :-)

I am using a Dr. Bott 8 port USB based KVM switch switching between a 10.2.6 G4 500 MHz and a couple of win2k/XP-machines.

They all share a Logitech Cordless Desktop MX that has this great feature of placing the "ALT" and "Apple/Windows" keys at the correct physical place for BOTH the platforms(!!!)
Using the Mac's keyboard on the PeeCee swaps* the two keys - not good when you're used to "the real thing"...

* Well actually not the keys do what their labes states - but on windows' keyboards their placement are reversed - know what I mean...?

Too often I get Kernel panics at the time of switching away from the Mac.
At first I had my suspicion at Outlook 2001 (in classic) so I switched away from the classic enviroment just before I had to switch to the windows machine - but today it happened when I was "in the Finder" - the Panic frequency has decreased though after my "stay away from classic when switching" behavior - but that just might be a coincidence.

I am maintaining a detailed log-file of the crashes and what I did when it happened to see if I can find a pattern.

I think I'll try to put a USB hub between the Mac and the KVM switch - rebooting is not an acceptable workaround.

PS.: I think I have had about 5 Kernel Panics in about 1-2 months, othervise I only reboot for system updates...

PPS.: I wonder if it makes a difference to install a PCI USB card???



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