Re: KVM switch and PS2 mouse FC 3

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On Wednesday February 2 2005 21:14, Craig White wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 20:03 -0600, Tony Wynn wrote:
> > >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.
> > >
> > >----
> > >try running 'system-config-mouse'
> > >
> > >Craig
> >
> > Thanks Craig, I was looking for something like that, one question
> > though, that needs to be run from an X session, correct?  If so, is
> > there a keyboard shortcut to open a command window in Gnome.
> > Currently, the only thing I have been able to do is switch to a
> > command line virtual terminal.  Can I run that from a command line
> > virtual terminal?
>
> ---
> probably is - I just don't know it.
>
> Control-Alt-F2   switches to text based terminal
> type in 'system-config-mouse'
> and see what happens
>
> Alt-F7 to switch back   ;-)
>
> Craig

Try adding the following to the kernel line in /etc/grub.conf
psmouse.proto=imps

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