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Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 03:16:24 -0500
From: Anthony DiSante <theant@nodivisions.com>
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Subject: Re: mouse still losing sync and thus jumping around
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Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
>>In Oct 2004 I posted to lkml with subject "KVM -> jumping mouse... still no 
>>solution?"  Dmitry Torokhov (hi :) responded that this would work on 2.6.9-rc3+:
>>
>>	echo -n "reconnect" > /sys/bus/serio/devices/serioX/driver
>>
>>That was GREAT and it worked for a while, but now my last few 2.6.10 kernels 
>>don't seem to care when I do that, and again, unplugging the mouse is the 
>>only thing that works.  I'm currently running 2.6.10-gentoo-r6.
>>
> 
> 
> It still should work fine, but in a bit different form:
> 
> 	echo -n "reconnect" > /sys/bus/serio/devices/serioX/drvctl
> 
> I.e. substitute "driver" with "drvctl" as now "driver" is a symlink to
> a currently bound driver that is set up by driver core.

Ah, sweet, thank you.  This should all be documented somewhere!  For now 
I've been keeping my notes here:

http://nodivisions.com/tech/linux/jumpingmouse/

-Anthony DiSante
http://nodivisions.com/
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