Maybe the keyboard emulator of your KVM is different than your current keyboard driver. The keyboard is constantly sending a signal to the mother board to ensure it is still there. When you switch your KVM, the KVM then in turn sends a signal to the motherboard, it seems like the OS is seeing a different keyboard. try changing you current keyboard to a standard 101 keyboard type. or another driver.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Toralf Lund Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 7:28 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Keyboard problems when connecting via switchbox Another problem on one of our somewhat exotic setups: I just tried connecting a Red Hat 7.3 box to the keyboard and monitor via a switchbox (combined screen/mouse/keyboard; mice still connected directly due to lack of appropriate cables), where a different workstation - an old SGI O2 - is also connected. Now, when booting with the Linux box active, everything would work fine. I could then switch to the SGI, and discovered no problems there either. However, when I switched back to the Linux box again, problems started occurring; the keyboard setup got messed up somehow. I could still type normal characters, but: 1. Alt/Ctrl combinations - including attempts to switch to a different VT via Ctrl+Alt+Fkey - failed. 2. Arrow keys did not work. 3. Auto repeat appeared to be switched off. 4. Caps Lock, Num Lock etc. had no effect. 5. Messages like Sep 23 13:51:28 ringerike kernel: keyboard: unrecognized scancode (71) - ignored Sep 23 13:51:32 ringerike last message repeated 4 times Sep 23 13:51:33 ringerike kernel: keyboard: unrecognized scancode (5e) - ignored Sep 23 13:51:34 ringerike last message repeated 3 times were added to system log. I got the same behaviour in text mode and under X, and found no way out except to reboot. I also tried again several times, with the same results. Any idea why this happened? -- Toralf Lund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
