Linux KVM help

[Kenny Donahue]

Well the good news is, I can not
reproduce the problem.  I think I was being a
little quick with the mouse when I switched
machines.
Thanks for everyone help.
Kenny

Bill Mullen wrote:

>On Mon, 14 Apr 2003, Kenny Donahue wrote:
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>>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?
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>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.
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>YMMV, of course ... :)
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