Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: KVM -> jumping mouse... still no solution? | From | Rajendra P Mishra <> | Date | Wed, 06 Oct 2004 12:53:46 +0530 |
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One quick solution I know of is to restart the gpm daemon, (/etc/init.d/gpm restart) that resets the mouse settings. But this is not the correct way, there should be some way where the driver automatically detects and resets the mouse.
bye, -rpm On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 11:06, Anthony DiSante wrote: > Hello, > > I first got a KVM switch around the time of kernel 2.2.something, and when > using it to switch to a Linux system, the mouse "freaks out." It's fine if > you don't move it, but if you move it N/E/NE it's really slow and jerky, and > if you move it S/W/SW even a hair, it slams down to the SW corner of the > screen and acts like you hit all the mouse's buttons 50 times simultaneously. > > When switching to an MS Windows system (any version from 98 on up; haven't > tried anything earlier) the mouse works fine, it just pauses for maybe a > second at first, during which I assume it's doing some kind of PS/2 reset. > > It used to be that switching out of X-windows with Ctrl-Alt-F[1-6] and then > back to VT7 would reset the mouse, but that hasn't worked in about a year > for me. I was also able to run a little script to send a few specific chars > to the mouse device that seemed to reset it... that too no longer works. > The only thing that works now is unplugging the mouse from the KVM and then > back in. > > The other day I came across this (kerneltrap.org/node/view/2199): "Use > psmouse.proto=bare on the kernel command line, or proto=bare on the > psmouse module command line." But that makes the mouse's scroll-wheel not > work. (And this problem doesn't exist with some of the mouse drivers, but > it does with IMPS/2, which is the only one I've ever been able to get the > scroll wheel working with.) > > Is there really no solution to this problem? If Microsoft can figure it > out, I'm sure someone in the Linux community can... not that I'm > volunteering, of course... > > -Anthony DiSante > http://nodivisions.com/ > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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