Re: KVM switch and PS2 mouse FC 3

From: Craig White (craigwhite_at_azapple.com)
Date: 02/03/05

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Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 19:14:58 -0700

    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
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