Mouse related issue

[Alan]

On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 15:14, Tyler larson wrote: 
> On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 16:04, Alan wrote:
> > On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 09:47, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 01:38:45AM -0800, Alan wrote:
> > > > In Redhat 9 I would just bring up the redhat mouse configure app and it
> > > > would reset the mouse.  That does not work in Fedora any more.
> > > 
> > > Switch to text mode and back probably does the right thing
> > 
> > There does not seem to be a keybinding for that anymore.  (Used to be
> > something like Alt-F12.) I guess I get to hack one in.
> 
> Ctrl-Alt-F1 (through F6), and yeah, it's still there.

Kewl.  Thanks!

One slight problem here...  It does not fix the mouse.

Here is the situation:

I switch over to another system on my KVM switch and the mouse cursor
becomes very jumpy and does all sorts of nasty random things.

I am using Fedora 1 with the 2.6.1-1.126 smp kernel.

Switching to a text console does not reset the mouse.

Restarting gpm does not reset the mouse. 

The mouse has the same problem in the text console(s) as well.

In the syslog, I get the messages:

Jan 15 15:23:53 zontar kernel: psmouse.c: Explorer Mouse at
isa0060/serio1/input0 lost synchronization, throwing 3 bytes away.
Jan 15 15:24:19 zontar last message repeated 3 times
Jan 15 15:24:23 zontar kernel: psmouse.c: Explorer Mouse at
isa0060/serio1/input0 lost synchronization, throwing 1 bytes away.
Jan 15 15:24:52 zontar kernel: psmouse.c: Explorer Mouse at
isa0060/serio1/input0 lost synchronization, throwing 3 bytes away.
Jan 15 15:25:57 zontar kernel: psmouse.c: Explorer Mouse at
isa0060/serio1/input0 lost synchronization, throwing 3 bytes away.
Jan 15 15:25:59 zontar kernel: psmouse.c: Explorer Mouse at
isa0060/serio1/input0 lost synchronization, throwing 1 bytes away.
Jan 15 15:26:02 zontar kernel: psmouse.c: Explorer Mouse at
isa0060/serio1/input0 lost synchronization, throwing 1 bytes away.
Jan 15 15:27:05 zontar gpm: gpm shutdown succeeded
Jan 15 15:27:06 zontar gpm: gpm startup succeeded
Jan 15 15:27:08 zontar kernel: psmouse.c: Explorer Mouse at
isa0060/serio1/input0 lost synchronization, throwing 2 bytes away.
Jan 15 15:27:16 zontar kernel: psmouse.c: Explorer Mouse at
isa0060/serio1/input0 lost synchronization, throwing 1 bytes away.

The only way to get the mouse to go back to "sane operation" is to
reboot the machine.

Is this a problem in the 2.6.x kernels or am I missing something?

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