From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 13 11:40:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A12F155AB for ; Mon, 13 Sep 1999 11:40:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@wintelcom.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA24802; Mon, 13 Sep 1999 04:59:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@wintelcom.net) Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 11:59:25 +0000 (GMT) From: Alfred Perlstein To: Bruce Leggett Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Switch Box and FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <0003546b77c29b43_mailit@mail.ngga.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Bruce Leggett wrote: > > > All, > Is there a way to get a switch box to work corretly with FreeBSD? In Windows > and the BeOS they seem to work just fine. In Linux if I switch to another > machine and come back to the Linux box the mouse shots to the top right > corner and is useless. In BSD it does the same but you can kind of use it, > but it's jittery. Is there some way to make this work?? I have 10 boxes here > and like using one monitor. Thanks, I find that moused (man moused) is pretty good at staying synced with the mouse even when you have a switchbox. If you are already running moused and the problem persists, try to kill -HUP , that will get it to resync more often than not. good luck, -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message