Re: Scroll wheel mouse at KVM switch

On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 00:29 -0800, Onno Garms wrote:
Hello,

I have a problem to get a scroll wheel mouse working at my KVM switch.

After booting, the scroll wheel works. But when I switch to another
computer and then back to the first computer, the scroll wheel no
longer works (but other mouse functions do). When I unplug and replug
the mouse, it works again. Replugging the mouse after every switching
between computers is not an option though.

my solution (I have an Avocent)...

On the kernel boot lines in grub menu.lst:

psmouse.proto=imps psmouse.resetafter=1

Then when I switch, I do a mouse button 1 down as the first thing
(hopefully it's somewhere safe... recommend running a screen saver)
and that should force a resync.

There's an experimental option for doing resync
psmouse.resync(something), but the addition is volatile (may go
away in future kernel releases).

The problem is with resyncing the mouse. Not sure how/when
Linux will deal with this. It's been a problem for a long time.

Hope that helps,
Chris


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