[X4U] Keyboard oddity

Jens Selvig lstnmt at bresnan.net
Fri Dec 22 13:55:50 PST 2006


Hmmm, the KVM switch doesn't have external power. I'll shut down both  
of the computers and see that fixes the problem. Maybe even unhook  
the two computers from the switch as a test.

Thanks,

Jens


On Dec 22, 2006, at 2:52 PM, Nick Scalise wrote:

> On Dec 22, 2006, at 3:44 PM, Jens Selvig wrote:
>
>> I have two G4 Macs sharing a monitor/keyboard via an IOGEAR 2 port  
>> KVM switch. On G4 (one), the delete key no longer functions a  
>> backward delete key. It does a forward delete, however, if I hold  
>> the shift key down the backward delete works. The second G4 seems  
>> to work fine. I have restarted the computer, swapped out keyboards  
>> to no avail. Could this be a problem with one of the login items?  
>> I checked to see if Universal Access was turned on and it is not.
>
> Have you reset the KVM?
>
> I use an IOGEAR 4 port USB KVM that goes weird every once in a  
> while and pulling the power to it for a few seconds usually fixes it.



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