Re: [gentoo-dev] development-sources-2.6.0 => vanilla-sources

[Steven Elling]

On Wed, 2003-12-31 at 20:03, Steven Elling wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-12-27 at 11:22, Horror Vacui wrote:
> > On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 10:59:35 -0600
> > Steven wrote:
> >
> > > My 2.6.0 problems so far are:
> > >
> > > * I have a KVM that doesn't support mouse and keyboard emulation. When
> > > I switch away from Linux and then come back the mouse cursor goes
> > > crazy. Fine enough because I use gpm in repeater mode, have X reading
> > > /dev/gpmdata and use a keyboard sequence to restart gpm for me;
> > > however; under 2.6.0 restarting gpm doesn't help.  The mouse cursor
> > > still goes crazy and the kernel reports "psmouse.c: Wheel Mouse at
> > > isa0060/serio1/input0 lost synchronization, throwing 2 bytes away."
> >
> > Hm, I think I read something about this kind of thing in a description
> > on www.kernelnewbies.org (IIRC it's called "what to expect from 2.6). It
> > might be a clue.
>
> From
> http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/davej/misc/post-halloween-2.6.txt:
>
> Input layer.
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~
> <snip>
> - If you use a KVM switcher, and experience problems, booting with the boot
>   time argument 'psmouse_noext' should fix your problems.
>
> -----
>
> I will try this out and see if it works.  Thanks for the pointer to Kernel Newbies.

Nope.  Doesn't work.  The only way I can get the mouse to reset is to
compile the ps2 mouse driver as a module (psmouse.ko), stop gpm, unload
psmouse, reload psmouse, then start gpm back up.


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