Amy, I have the same exact switch as well as its 8-port brethren. I've occasionally had it hang, but I've always been able to get the Linux boxes going. The NT ones ususally have to be rebooted Haven't lost the Novell one yet. Here are some things I would ponder.... What version of X and what window manager are you running? It seems suspicious that it only happens if X is running. What happens if you kill X and go to console mode? How bout if you actually unplug the mouse and keyboard cables from the computer? How avout apm? Is apmd running? Is APM turned on or off in the BIOS? Check out the dpms flags in the xset command. BTW I'm not really happy with the switch. :-( -- Gerry Skerbitz gsker at tcfreneet.org On Mon, 15 Apr 2002, Amy Tanner wrote: > I have a Belkin OmniView SE 4-port KVM. Attached to it is a Dell and 2 > Gateways. I have no problem with the Dell, however on both Gateways, > the keyboard and mouse will hang after not being the active box (on the > KVM) for more than 20 minutes or so. With both machines I can still ping > them and login to them remotely. However only a reboot will fix the > keyboard/mouse problem. I get slightly different results with each: [etc.]