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

[Greg Aumann <Greg_Aumann@sil.org>]

I have a cheap KVM with no mouse emulation and a ps2 mouse. The (crude) 
way I deal with this problem is to switch to a console session e.g. 
Ctl-Alt-F1 and then switch back to the X session Ctl-Alt-F7. This resets 
the mouse and works every time.

Greg

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.
> 
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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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