Moouse not working in FC4

[Dotan Cohen]

On 7/17/05, Chris Wright <linux-list at cwic-solutions.co.uk> wrote:
> > -----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
> 

I always start the machine with the KVM pointed at the machine being
started. That one I learned quickly!

Dotan Cohen
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