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Subject: Re: psmintr: out of sync?
In-Reply-To: <19991029102934.A21035@orion.ac.hmc.edu> from Brooks Davis at "Oct 29, 1999 10:29:34 am"
To: brooks@one-eyed-alien.net (Brooks Davis)
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 17:50:47 +0000 (GMT)
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> On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 01:51:34PM -0300, The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> > 
> > I just got my boss moved over to FreeBSD from Windows, and we're having a
> > terrible time with X and mice ...
> > 
> > She has a PII system, and we've tried both a Logitech Mouseman and
> > MicroSoft Inteellimouse...we have her box hooked up through a console
> > switch, since, for now, she needs to shre her mouse/monitor/keyboard with
> > her old Microsoft machine...
> > 
> > If I reboot the machine and bring up X, no problems...if I switch to
> > Microsfot and back again, it starts to generate:
> > 
> > psmintr: out of sync (#### != ####)
> > 
> > error messages ...
> 
> If you have a good smart switch you may be able to reset the mouse and
> bring it back into sync.  For instance my Black Box switch lets me reset
> the mouse with "Ctl Ctl M W" which usually fixes the sync problems.  I
> believe that serial mice will often resync if you unplug them and then
> plug them back in.  That won't work with PS/2 mice though (at least I
> don't think it will, the last real PS/2s I used would require a power
> cycle after pulling the mouse).  If your switch can't handle it then
> you'll probably have to get a new one.

apparently win98 (but not 95) CAN handle a, erm, 'hot mouse swap' ...

> 
> -- Brooks
> 
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