[Tfug] USB KVM Issues

[Nicolas Lopez]

On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 07:18:02PM -0700, John E. Morrow wrote:
> Howdy and Happy New Year!
  Happy Wednesday.

> I received a Iogear Miniview III 4-Port USB KVM as an Xmas gift from my
> wife. I have been having some issues with it and my Linux box. I'm hoping
> someone has some insight into this. Here's what's going on:
> The video switches fine, but the Linux box does not recognized the USB
> mouse and keyboard when they are plugged into the front of the KVM (where
> they're supposed to be plugged int). If I plug 'em into the generic USB
> device ports on the back the systems sees them just fine - of course ,
> then the OSD stuff does not work nor does the hot key switching. Also, the
> system keeps coughing up the following message: "usb-uhci.c: interrupt,
> status 3, frame #230" the frame number seems to change randomly, though.
> Anybody have any experience with this or any thoughts?

  Is it a constant stream of those errors, or only when you switch? If it's
only when you switch I'd say it's normal.
  How does the KVM appear to the system? I'd imagin it's just a hub that
gets hot-pluged to different systems, but these wacky product
managers/designers tend to avoid my logic.   (Watch the syslog and maybe the
contents of /proc/bus/usb/devices (mount -t usbdevfs non /proc/bus/usb))
  Hmm, does unplugging and repluging the KVM after switching cause things to
be redetected?

  - Nick Lopez
    kimo_sabe@atdot.org
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