Re: Restoring Keyboard and Mouse Connections

From: Alban Browaeys (browaeys.alban_at_wanadoo.fr)
Date: 04/02/05

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Date: Sat, 02 Apr 2005 07:58:44 +0200

    Le Wed, 30 Mar 2005 12:58:38 -0500, Hal Vaughan a écrit :

    > I have a KVM, the older kind, controlled with a rotary switch, that I use on
    > several systems. The keyboard and mouse connections are PS2, not usb. If I
    > switch to system C and have to reboot or power down and don't get the switch
    > back to system A or B fast enough, then I sometimes lose all mouse and
    > keyboard response on A or B or both. I can still connect to the systems by
    > ssh.

    If when this happen you try to plug the keyboard directly to A or B does
    it works ? It may be a limitation of the KVM .
    Did i understand you : A and B are always up while this happens, only C is
    powerdown though when you forgot to switch the KVM to A or B while doing
    it the KVM does not send the keyboard/mouse data to the other when
    switched anymore .

     
    > Is there any way, through ssh, that I can get the system to start
    > reading the keyboard and mouse again? Is there some service I can
    > restart or something? I'd really like to be able to reactivate the
    > connections without having to reboot.

    You can build psmouse as a module and unload/reload it with modprobe. IF
    this works then i was wrong above.

    Regards
    Alban 

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