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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