Linux KVM help

[Bill Mullen]

On Mon, 14 Apr 2003, Kenny Donahue wrote:

> 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?

I've heard some folks report that switching to a vc (Ctrl-Alt-F1 thru F6) 
and then switching right back to X (Ctrl-Alt-F7) will often reawaken it.

YMMV, of course ... :)

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