Fedora 10, Belkin KVM, USB Mouse/Keyboard, NVIDIA Card, OpenOffice

Tue Feb 10 10:04:06 PST 2009

Hello,

Here is the setup. I am running two different desktop computers, each with
their own monitor, but with only one keyboard / mouse. I am using a Belkin
KVM switch to control the keyboard / mouse function between the two. The
switch has USB inputs and USB outputs.

I am running Fedora10 (F1)0) on each desktop computer. Each has a different
NVIDIA Quadro card installed, and I am running NVIDIA drivers (different
version of each because the one card is not supported anymore).

Everything works fine, until I launch OpenOffice on either computer. At that
point, when I use the KVM to switch mouse / keyboard to the other desktop X
will crash. I have not been able to reproduce this with anything other than
the OpenOffice suite of applications.

It has something to do with the evdev module.... here is the backtrace in
the Xorg.0.log

(EE) Belkin Corporation Flip CC: Read error: No such device
(II) config/hal: removing device Belkin Corporation Flip CC
(II) Belkin Corporation Flip CC: Close
(II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
(EE) Dell Dell USB Keyboard: Read error: No such device
(II) config/hal: removing device Dell Dell USB Keyboard
(II) Dell Dell USB Keyboard: Close
(II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
(II) config/hal: Adding input device Belkin Corporation Flip KVM
(**) Belkin Corporation Flip KVM: always reports core events
(**) Belkin Corporation Flip KVM: Device: "/dev/input/event3"
(II) Belkin Corporation Flip KVM: Found 5 mouse buttons
(II) Belkin Corporation Flip KVM: Found x and y relative axes
(II) Belkin Corporation Flip KVM: Configuring as mouse
(**) Belkin Corporation Flip KVM: YAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5
(**) Belkin Corporation Flip KVM: EmulateWheelButton: 4,
EmulateWheelInertia: 10, EmulateWheelTimeout: 200
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Belkin Corporation Flip KVM"
(type: MOUSE)
(II) config/hal: Adding input device Belkin Corporation Flip KVM
(**) Belkin Corporation Flip KVM: always reports core events
(**) Belkin Corporation Flip KVM: Device: "/dev/input/event7"
(II) Belkin Corporation Flip KVM: Found keys
(II) Belkin Corporation Flip KVM: Configuring as keyboard
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Belkin Corporation Flip KVM"
(type: KEYBOARD)
(**) Option "xkb_rules" "evdev"
(**) Belkin Corporation Flip KVM: xkb_rules: "evdev"
(**) Option "xkb_model" "pc105+inet"
(**) Belkin Corporation Flip KVM: xkb_model: "pc105+inet"
(**) Option "xkb_layout" "us"
(**) Belkin Corporation Flip KVM: xkb_layout: "us"

Backtrace:
0: /usr/bin/Xorg(xorg_backtrace+0x26) [0x4e7a26]
1: /usr/bin/Xorg(xf86SigHandler+0x39) [0x47a679]
2: /lib64/libc.so.6 [0x33dac32f90]
3: /usr/bin/Xorg(XkbStringText+0x1c) [0x56711c]
4: /usr/bin/Xorg(XkbWriteXKBGeometry+0x191) [0x5587d1]
5: /usr/bin/Xorg(XkbWriteXKBKeymapForNames+0x5bb) [0x557d1b]
6: /usr/bin/Xorg(XkbDDXLoadKeymapByNames+0x18a) [0x561cba]
7: /usr/bin/Xorg(ProcXkbGetKbdByName+0x3ab) [0x53fb2b]
8: /usr/bin/Xorg(Dispatch+0x364) [0x4468d4]
9: /usr/bin/Xorg(main+0x45d) [0x42cd1d]
10: /lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe6) [0x33dac1e576]
11: /usr/bin/Xorg [0x42c0f9]

Fatal server error:
Caught signal 11.  Server aborting

(II) Power Button (FF): Close
(II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
(II) Power Button (CM): Close
(II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
(II) Macintosh mouse button emulation: Close
(II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
(II) USB Optical Mouse: Close
(II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
(II) Belkin Corporation Flip KVM: Close
(II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
(II) Belkin Corporation Flip KVM: Close
(II) UnloadModule: "evdev"

Also, here is my xorg.conf

[root at cio11-6305z usr]# cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 1.0  (buildmeister at builder58)  Thu Jul 17
18:39:00 PDT 2008

# Xorg configuration created by system-config-display

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "single head configuration"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
#    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
#    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

#Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from default
#    Identifier     "Mouse0"
#    Driver         "mouse"
#    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
#    Option       "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
#    Option         "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
#    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
#    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
#EndSection

#Section "InputDevice"

# keyboard added by rhpxl
#    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
#    Driver         "kbd"
#    Option         "XkbModel" "pc105"
#    Option         "XkbLayout" "us"
#EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "Unknown"
    HorizSync       30.0 - 110.0
    VertRefresh     50.0 - 150.0
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Videocard0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Videocard0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    Option         "TwinView" "True"
    Option         "MetaModes" "nvidia-auto-select, nvidia-auto-select"
    SubSection     "Display"
        Viewport    0 0
        Depth       24
        Modes      "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600"
"720x400" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
EndSection

and here are related packages:
openoffice.org-graphicfilter-3.0.1-15.2.fc10.x86_64
openoffice.org-brand-3.0.1-15.2.fc10.x86_64
openoffice.org-xsltfilter-3.0.1-15.2.fc10.x86_64
openoffice.org-ure-3.0.1-15.2.fc10.x86_64
openoffice.org-math-3.0.1-15.2.fc10.x86_64
openoffice.org-pdfimport-3.0.1-15.2.fc10.x86_64
openoffice.org-core-3.0.1-15.2.fc10.x86_64
openoffice.org-impress-core-3.0.1-15.2.fc10.x86_64
openoffice.org-impress-3.0.1-15.2.fc10.x86_64
openoffice.org-math-core-3.0.1-15.2.fc10.x86_64
openoffice.org-calc-core-3.0.1-15.2.fc10.x86_64
openoffice.org-presenter-screen-3.0.1-15.2.fc10.x86_64
openoffice.org-calc-3.0.1-15.2.fc10.x86_64
openoffice.org-draw-core-3.0.1-15.2.fc10.x86_64
openoffice.org-langpack-en-3.0.1-15.2.fc10.x86_64
openoffice.org-writer-core-3.0.1-15.2.fc10.x86_64
openoffice.org-draw-3.0.1-15.2.fc10.x86_64
openoffice.org-writer-3.0.1-15.2.fc10.x86_64

xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.5.3-6.fc10.x86_64
xorg-x11-server-common-1.5.3-6.fc10.x86_64
xorg-x11-server-utils-7.4-3.fc10.x86_64

xorg-x11-drv-evdev-2.1.0-1.fc10.x86_64

glibc-headers-2.9-3.x86_64
glibc-common-2.9-3.x86_64
glibc-devel-2.9-3.x86_64
glibc-2.9-3.x86_64

Any help would be appreciated.  Also, the other box is not 64bit, but I can
recreate the exact results by doing the same procedure.  1) log in, 2) open
openoffice, 3) use KVM to switch mouse/keyboard control to the other box

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