KVM + 2.6 + mouse wheel (is it ever going to be fixed?)

[Thomas Cameron]

On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 19:07 +0200, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> Am Di, den 21.06.2005 schrieb Dimitri Deserranno um 18:53:
> 
> > It seems there is a bug in kernel 2.6. When using kernel 2.6 along with a 
> > KVM switch, the mouse wheel control is lost after you switch from one 
> > system to the next. This did not happen when I was running kernel 2.4.
> > 
> > Does anyone know if this is in fact a bug in the kernel, and if a solution 
> > exists?
> 
> > Dimi. 
> 
> http://kerneltrap.org/node/2199
> (http://kerneltrap.org/node/2007)
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=123273
> 
> "psmouse.proto=bare" as kernel boot line parameter could help.
> 
> Alexander

I'm intimately familiar with this issue - I have a Belkin KVM and have
screwed with this for too long.  :-(

I see lots of comments on this issue but no real solution (setting my
mouse protocol run in degraded mode is *not* a solution).

I am not flaming, but does anyone know if there is actually going to be
a solution for this?  I hate to say this, but it Just Works(TM) in
Windows XP and older versions of Linux.  What is it about the 2.6 kernel
that is causing this issue - does anyone know?

Thomas