Fwd: Linux KVM help

[Travis Roy]

Woops, forgot to send this to everybody.

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> From: Travis Roy <travis at scootz.net>
> Date: Mon Apr 14, 2003  5:51:40 PM US/Eastern
> To: Kenny Donahue <kennyd at mc.com>
> Subject: Re: Linux KVM help
>
> Rather then tell you that you got a POS, or other totally useless 
> information about what you should have gotten rather then fix the 
> problem with what you got.. here's what I found on one list:
>
> ---
> I too had this problem with my cheap Genie KVM switch.  I have a
> Microsoft Intellimouse (3-button wheel mouse).  The KVM switch appears
> to do some mouse protocol munging that confuses the X server when it
> is set to use the "imps/2" protocol.  If I switch my XF86Config-4 to
>         Option      "Protocol" "ps/2"
> it works fine, although the wheel loses it's wheelability and is only
> useful as a middle button.
> ---
>
> Another person also said to not touch the mouse for 2-3 seconds after 
> switching and then start using the mouse. I'd go for the config change 
> myself unless you NEED the wheel
>
> On Monday, April 14, 2003, at 04:29 PM, Kenny Donahue wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>> I just bought a used Belkin KVM switch to
>> use on my machines at home. If you don't know about
>> this handy devices, they let you use 1 keyboard, mouse,
>> and monitor with multiple computers.  Anyway, whenever
>> I go from my Windows box to the Linux box, the mouse
>> gets trashed. I've seen this at work also when I boot
>> linux without the KVM switch active on that machine.
>> Now the question.  Is there a way to "re-init" the PS/2
>> mouse to get it back into a workable state?
>> Thanks,
>> Kenny
>>
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