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I have a cheap KVM with no mouse emulation and a ps2 mouse. The (crude) |
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way I deal with this problem is to switch to a console session e.g. |
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Ctl-Alt-F1 and then switch back to the X session Ctl-Alt-F7. This resets |
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the mouse and works every time. |
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Greg |
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Steven Elling wrote: |
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> On Sat, 2003-12-27 at 11:22, Horror Vacui wrote: |
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>>On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 10:59:35 -0600 |
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>>Steven wrote: |
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>>>My 2.6.0 problems so far are: |
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>>>* I have a KVM that doesn't support mouse and keyboard emulation. When |
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>>>I switch away from Linux and then come back the mouse cursor goes |
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>>>crazy. Fine enough because I use gpm in repeater mode, have X reading |
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>>>/dev/gpmdata and use a keyboard sequence to restart gpm for me; |
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>>>however; under 2.6.0 restarting gpm doesn't help. The mouse cursor |
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>>>still goes crazy and the kernel reports "psmouse.c: Wheel Mouse at |
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>>>isa0060/serio1/input0 lost synchronization, throwing 2 bytes away." |
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>>Hm, I think I read something about this kind of thing in a description |
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>>on www.kernelnewbies.org (IIRC it's called "what to expect from 2.6). It |
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>>might be a clue. |
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> From |
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> http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/davej/misc/post-halloween-2.6.txt: |
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> Input layer. |
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> ~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
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> <snip> |
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> - If you use a KVM switcher, and experience problems, booting with the boot |
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> time argument 'psmouse_noext' should fix your problems. |
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> I will try this out and see if it works. Thanks for the pointer to Kernel Newbies. |
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