KVM switch and PS2 mouse FC 3

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Wed Feb 2 23:36:37 UTC 2005


On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 17:18 -0600, Tony Wynn wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I recently bought a KVM switch (Linksys KVM2KIT) to put between a
> Windows XP box and a Fedora 3 box.  Everything was working fine on the
> Fedora box before installing the switch.  After installing the switch,
> the monitor and keyboard worked fine on both boxes, but the mouse was
> frozen.  Rebooting the Windows box fixed the mouse problem, but on the
> Fedora box the mouse is still frozen.  I did some searching and found
> this bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/beta/show_bug.cgi?id=111161. 
> This seems similar, but in the bug the behavior of the mouse is
> erratic whereas mine is frozen.  I tried switching virtual terminals
> and this did not help.  I tried the "psmouse.proto=bare, =imps, etc.
> in that bug but nothing helped.  I then tried plugging the mouse
> directly into the Fedora box, still frozen.  Rebooted, still frozen. 
> Powered down, let it sit, powered up, still frozen.  Not sure what to
> do now, I could give a rat's about the Windows box right now, I just
> want to get the Fedora box working again.  Anyone have any ideas.
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try running 'system-config-mouse'

Craig




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