Moouse not working in FC4

[Chris Wright]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com 
> [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Dotan Cohen
> Sent: Sunday, July 17, 2005 7:39 PM
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases
> Subject: Moouse not working in FC4
> 
> Hi all, I have been having porblems with the mouse not being 
> detected in FC4. In the begining, sometimes when I would 
> switch computers on the KVM I would loose the mouse. I stoped 
> moving the mouse when I switch, and the problem disappeared...
> 
> But now I sometimes loose the mouse when I am working, or 
> when I start the computer, it does not work. Googleing in 
> windows (no! but that's why we have a kvm!) led me to check 
> that /dev/mouse should be pointing at /dev/psaux however, 
> there is no /dev/mouse
> 
> So I did "sudo init 1" and waited for the command line, then 
> gave it a "sudu init 2". When X came back up, I still had no mouse!
> 
> OT: I should point out that our pet rat is not a replacement 
> for a pointing device. But you can see her here:
> http://wikipedia.org/wiki/gush
> 

Dotan,

I had the same problem with my KVM.  If I boot the computer when KVM is
connected to one computer, on switching back to the FCx box, the mouse loses
sync and does the merry dance all over the screen.
I don't lose it totally though, just the ability to control it.
My Logitech wireless has the same problem via the KVM and Logitech maintain
it won't work via a KVM anyway.

I think it is a lower level function of the driver to restore/request sync
with the mouse, but some drivers do this once on boot up and don't request a
resync after that.  I'll have to look up the references since I last looked
into this about 7-8 years ago.

Regards

Chris