KVM FYI

[Scot L. Harris]

On Sun, 2004-06-20 at 15:04, Tom Diehl wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Jun 2004, Colin Charles wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 10:16, Dwaine Castle wrote:
> > 
> > > I've never received a reply from the vendor about FC2 support, but at least
> > > one user speaks highly of this product.
> > 
> > KVM's are usually software agnostic - they should "just work"
> 
> It would be nice if that were true. Upgrading to the latest kernel
> for fc2 broke my mouse. Switching back to the old one fixes it again.
> It is broken in both X and the text console. Moving the mouse slightly
> causes it to jump all over the screen. I would put it in bugzilla except
> I know they will just close it and say kvm's are unsupported. Personally
> I think that stinks but who am I. They want to appeal to enterprise customers
> but will not support a piece of hardware that is used by 99% of enterprise 
> customers. Yes I know this is Fedora core but the attitude is the same for
> RHEL.
> 
> Just my $.02
> 
> Tom

Have you tried the following fix for the jumping mouse/kvm problem? 
Posted this earlier this month.  Worked for several other people and I
have since tried out on my stuff and works here also.



Have seen this problem as well on the Belkin KVMs.  

I came across this item on another list.  Have not tried it myself but
it sounds like it fixed a few peoples problems with this.


http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2004-February/msg00739.html

They say to put psmouse.proto=bare on the kernel command line or
proto=bare on the psmouse module command line.

There was some discussion of two other options imps and exps.  exps
apparently causes the mouse jumping problem.  imps appears to get a
mouse with a wheel working as expected.

Again I have not tried this but this may be an actual fix to this
problem.

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