Belkin Switches and Erratic PS2 Mouse

[Bob Hartung]

Scott,
   Send it back and get the USB model.  I use it successfully with 
a wireless mouse and FC2, WinXP boxes without any problems of the 
"wild mouse" that I had with the PS/2 switch.

Bob

Scot L. Harris wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-11-13 at 12:06, Gregory P. Ennis wrote:
> 
>>I just installed FC2 and am having difficulty with my ps2 mouse (2 button with a 
>>track wheel) It is a Compaq Microsoft IntelliMouse.  I have a Belkin 4 port switch 
>>that I use with XP, RH 8 and FC1 systems that has worked fine except for one 
>>difficulty.  When I switch back and forth with the Belkin Switch to one of the Linux 
>>machines I am required to switch to a terminal window by using Cntrl-Alt-F1 before I 
>>can use the gui window in either of the Linux machines otherwise the mouse behaves 
>>erratically.  Obviously a little nuisance, but an easy work around to be able to 
>>connect 3 machines to one desktop.
> 
> 
>>I tried appending the following statements to the kernal line of the grub boot loader 
>>in three separate attempts.
>>
>>psmouse.proto=imps
>>psmouse.proto=bare
>>psmouse.proto=exps
>>
>>I could not get FC2 to boot using these qualifiers; I obtained "Error 27" by the boot 
>>grub loader in each case.
> 
> 
> Ah yes, this problem with KVM switches is well known.  Most of the time
> adding the psmouse options as described above seems to fix it for most
> systems.
> 
> There was a thread several months ago where someone mentioned a test
> mouse driver that was an attempt to fix this problem.  If you can find
> that thread or find the bugzilla report suggesting this alternate mouse
> driver maybe that would help.  Hopefully if that testing went as
> expected it is part of FC3 now but I don't know if that happened or not.
>