Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267259AbUJFFgo (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Oct 2004 01:36:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267263AbUJFFgo (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Oct 2004 01:36:44 -0400 Received: from mta13.mail.adelphia.net ([68.168.78.44]:50108 "EHLO mta13.adelphia.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267259AbUJFFgh (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Oct 2004 01:36:37 -0400 Message-ID: <4163845C.9020900@nodivisions.com> Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 01:36:28 -0400 From: Anthony DiSante Reply-To: orders@nodivisions.com User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (X11/20040913) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel Subject: KVM -> jumping mouse... still no solution? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1858 Lines: 37 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/