Re: hotplugging mouse hassles

From: Adam Hardy (adam.ant_at_cyberspaceroad.com)
Date: 08/18/05

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    Ryan King on 17/08/05 19:30, wrote:
    > On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 06:13:38PM +0100, Adam Hardy wrote:
    >>and for a while now the psmouse driver loses synch and goes nuts when I
    >>switch the KVM, even though Hotplug should keep it in there, as per this
    >>/var/log/messages:
    >
    > My experience with PS/2, under Linux and Windows, is that it doesn't care
    > for hotplugging very much. Possibly it has something to do with physical
    > connections (such as grounding issues?), or just software.
    >
    > If you want to hotplug, I recommend USB mice. I don't know how your KVM
    > would work in the mix... does it have USB as well? Maybe you'll just have
    > to have an army of mice (at least it beats having an army of keyboards,
    > too).

    Actually sometimes I just don't bother doing anything with the mouse and
    stick to the keyboard, but it makes surfing the web a major pain when
    the websites aren't set up for it. tab-tab-tab-tab-tab-tab-tab-tab-tab-...

    :( 

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