[lug] mouse going crazy in linux

[Chuck Morrison]

yup, it's a pretty common thing to have happen when dealing with old 
(and even some newer) kvm switches. At my last job I discovered I could 
regain mouse control by unplugging the mouse from the kvm and plugging 
it back in again. Worked every time. I've seen some kvm switches with a 
little button that allows you to do this via the button, although I've 
not used one to be able to tell if it works.

karl horlen wrote:
> I recently installed a system with a 2.6.9-42 kernel
> on it.  It's working great except for one quirky
> thing.  The mouse doesn't seem to work properly.  
>
> The minute you move the mouse, whether in a console or
> X, a message gets spit out:
>
> psmouse.c Wheel Mouse @isa0060/serial/input0 lost
> synchronization throwing 2 bytes away.
>
> If you're on a console you can recover from it fairly
> easy.  If you're in X it starts firing off random
> clicks and X is unusable.  
>
> I've tried to init 3 from the console but it appears
> that X doesn't want to completely relinquish the tty
> it normally runs on.  
>
> Here's the rub though.  I have a kvm hooked up to both
> a windows box and the linux box that share one
> kb/monitor.  I haven't fully confirmed this but I
> believe X and the mouse works fine if you boot to
> linux and never use the kvm to switch to the windows
> box.  
>
> It seems that the minute you kvm switch to the xp box
> and then switch back to linux that's when I believe
> the trouble starts.  At that point the mouse is hosed
> for the session.  The consoles are usable but X isn't.
>  I'd like to be able to use X for webbrowsing so I can
> find documentation etc without having to switch back
> and forth between the linux / win boxes.
>
> I didn't have this problem when I used the KVM with
> the last 2.4 kernel installed on the linux box.  The
> system, the keyboard, the mouse, the video card, and
> the KVM are all identical.  The only thing that has
> changed is my monitor.  I'm not sure why that would
> effect the mouse though. 
>
> Would anybody have any suggestions how to fix this?
>
> I checked my xorg.conf and it looks like the mouse
> protocol is probably being set correctly to:
>
> IMPS/2
>
> thanks
>
>
>  
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