From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 3 2:35:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rsys001a.roke.co.uk (rsys001a.roke.co.uk [193.118.192.110]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41CDC37B941 for ; Wed, 3 May 2000 02:35:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mick.gallagher@roke.co.uk) Received: by rsys001a.roke.co.uk with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Wed, 3 May 2000 10:35:11 +0100 Message-ID: From: "Gallagher, Mick" To: "'questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Mouse gets lost! Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 10:35:10 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi All, I run two PC's, and share my mouse, keyboard and monitor between them. Rather than unplugging the monitor etc. every time I want to connect to the other PC, I use a simple data transfer switch instead. (By simple, I mean that it doesn't support mouse/keyboard emulation on the 'unused' ports). However, if I switch the keyboard and mouse from the FreeBSD box, then back again, FreeBSD cannot see the mouse. This is also true if restart the X server. In fact, nothing other than a reboot will do! (Note that reconnection of the keyboard works fine, though). The alternative is to have a separate mouse for both machines, but surely a more elegant solution exists... And so my question: Is there some way I can get FreeBSD to 're-see' the mouse after a disconnection/reconnection? Many thanks, Mick --- mickg@iname.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message