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From: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
To: Stephen Satchell <satch@fluent-access.com>
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Subject: Re: mouse problems in 2.4.2 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 25 Mar 2001 16:27:37 PST."
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On Sun, 25 Mar 2001 16:27:37 -0800, 
Stephen Satchell <satch@fluent-access.com> wrote:
>I'm experiencing the same thing with an ASUS P5A-B running a K6-2/266 with 
>Linux 2.2.17, and Windows 98.   Central problem appears to be the KVM 
>switch I'm using. Save yourself the problem.
>
>I had to reboot all the systems to get regular mouse operation back with 
>the Logitech.

I sometimes have keyboard and mouse problems after changing machines
using a mechanical KVM, on a Logitech mouse.  This script fixes it for
me.

/usr/local/bin/switched

#!/bin/sh
/etc/rc.d/init.d/gpm restart
/sbin/kbdrate -r 30

I run gpm in redirect -R mode as
  daemon gpm -t $MOUSETYPE -R -m /dev/ttyS0
and tell X11 to read from /dev/gpmdata as
   Protocol        "MouseSystems"
   Device          "/dev/gpmdata"
not directly from the mouse; the redirect protocol is always
MouseSystems, no matter what the underlying mouse type is.  Restarting
gpm after KVM switch then fixes everything else.

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