From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 3 8:43:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.enteract.com (mail.enteract.com [207.229.143.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D349737B980 for ; Wed, 3 May 2000 08:43:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nasby@shell-1.enteract.com) Received: from shell-1.enteract.com (nasby@shell-1.enteract.com [207.229.143.40]) by mail.enteract.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA13420; Wed, 3 May 2000 10:43:34 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from nasby@shell-1.enteract.com) Received: (from nasby@localhost) by shell-1.enteract.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA48942; Wed, 3 May 2000 10:43:34 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from nasby) Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 10:43:33 -0500 From: "Jim C. Nasby" To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: "Gallagher, Mick" , "'questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Mouse gets lost! Message-ID: <20000503104333.C46955@enteract.com> Reply-To: jim@nasby.net References: <20000503075151.A28844@fw.wintelcom.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre3i In-Reply-To: <20000503075151.A28844@fw.wintelcom.net> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE i386 X-Distributed: Join the Effort! http://www.distributed.net Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG A kill -HUP will also do the trick. For awhile I was running a job on one of my boxes that would do that every 10 seconds. On Wed, May 03, 2000 at 07:51:51AM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * Gallagher, Mick [000503 03:07] wrote: > > 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? > > There's a good chance this is a result of bad hardware, either the > switch or your PS/2 mouse port acting flakey. However, a workaround > may exist; instead of having X user /dev/psm0, you should run the > 'moused' daemon, then whenever the mouse becomes unresponsive you > can kill and restart moused. I'm not sure it will help you out, > but when the NT folk over here would steal my mouse it worked when > simply plugging the mouse back in didn't. > > good luck, > -- > -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] > "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Jim C. Nasby (aka Decibel!) /^\ jim@nasby.net /___\ Freelance lighting designer and database developer / | \ Member: Triangle Fraternity, Sports Car Club of America /___|___\ Give your computer some brain-candy! www.distributed.net Team #1828 Get paid to surf!! http://www.enteract.com/~nasby/alladvantage.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message