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Date:      Mon, 24 Mar 2003 12:50:24 +0200
From:      Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Chip Norkus <wd@arpa.com>
Cc:        Alexey Zelkin <phantom@FreeBSD.org>, hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: KVM mice issues
Message-ID:  <20030324105024.GE23857@sunbay.com>
In-Reply-To: <200303230957.36433.wd@arpa.com>
References:  <200303230957.36433.wd@arpa.com>

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I think Alexey was having similar issues, and may have some
non-production quality patches for you to try.

On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 09:57:36AM -0600, Chip Norkus wrote:
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> Greetings hackers,
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> I have a KVM switch and a fairly new (Logitech MouseMan+ cordless) mouse,=
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> and I've found that while FreeBSD properly detects the mouse and all its=
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> functionality (buttons, scrollwheel, etc) upon boot if I switch to=20
> another port on the KVM and then switch back my mouse "loses" its=20
> functionality.
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> After spending a while trying to figure out this problem (and reading PRs=
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> on the issue (esp. i386/25463)) I found that a solution was not=20
> immediately available, but might be somewhat easy to achieve.  In=20
> particular, for my mouse, the mouse driver can and does detect invalid=20
> packets, and invalid packets are always received after a return to my=20
> FreeBSD system via the KVM.  I found that doing a reinitialization of the=
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> device would fix the mouse, but that doing it from the interrupt handler=
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> (in sys/isa/psm.c around line 2170) caused some intermediate problems. =
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> Normally the mouse would just bounce around and generate click events for=
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> a while and then settle down, but occasionally the driver (or maybe=20
> mouse?) would lock solid and I'd have to reboot the system.
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> Anyways, I'd like to work further on this problem and hopefully find a=20
> solution, but I'm having some trouble understanding where and what I=20
> should do.  I'm not a novice C hacker, but I *am* a very novice kernel=20
> hacker and would appreciate help from anyone with knowledge of the psm=20
> (and atkbdc) code.  I've considered maybe adding an ioctl to reset the=20
> mouse and adding a signal handler to moused to force a reset, but that=20
> seems kind of silly when the kernel driver can detect the problem itself=
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> and resolve it.  On the other hand, maybe that's the right way to go? =20
> Advice would be greatly appreciated.
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> -chip
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> chip norkus; renaissance hacker;                wd@arpa.com
> "question =3D (to) ? be : !be;" --Shakespeare     http://telekinesis.org/
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