Re: Restoring Keyboard and Mouse Connections

From: Pigeon (jah.pigeon_at_ukonline.co.uk)
Date: 04/03/05

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    On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 12:58:38PM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote:
    > 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.
    >
    > 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.

    My first inclination would be to take the keyboard and mouse apart,
    and hang a few thousand microfarads across the power rails.

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