RH/FC: Mouse loses sense of location via use of console switchers
Dan Thurman
danthurman at postman.net
Wed Jun 16 01:18:29 UTC 2004
Hello,
The Belkin KVM that I am referring to is not cheap.
The Belkin KVM works on damn nearly everything except
RH and FC.
BTW. There is a VERY CHEAP solution.
Put: psmouse.proto=imp on the kernel command line.
Problem solved. :-p
Thanks to Scot for this pointer!
~Dan
On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 12:20:48 -0600, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote
> At 10:55 6/14/2004, Dan Thurman wrote:
> >For those of you who have a battery of servers, and make
> >use of a common mouse-keyboard-monitor switcher (aka Belkin
> >or similar devices) you might notice that if you switch from
> >one server console to another console (that is to redhat/fedora)
> >the mouse cursor looses all sense of location and gets *really*
> >screwed up. I have not been able to "reset" the mouse cursor
> >to a "sane" position without being forced to reboot the system
> >if I want to be able to log into the system.
>
> IIRC, nearly everyone who had this problem was using cheap (read,
> low-quality) KVM switches. OTOH, people who are using better-quality
> gear and people who switch to better-quality gear generally do not
> have the same problem.
>
> Avocent (née Cybex) switches come highly recommended and work well;
> I have two myself. Other very good brands should be just as reliable.
>
> Cheers,
>
> >Thanks to all that have responded in advance,
> >~Dan
>
> If anyone has responded in advance, I'd sure like to know how they
> did it. <smile>
>
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