[X4U] Keyboard oddity

[Allan Rube ¹]

I have the same switch hooked up to a Mac and a PC. Every once in a while it
begins switching between the computers on its own. The only thing I have
figured out to do is shut both computers down, wait 4-5 minutes, and then
power up.

Allan


Jens Selvig wrote:

> 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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Allan
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