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Date:      Mon, 13 Sep 1999 11:59:25 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        Bruce Leggett <brucealeg@ngga.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Switch Box and FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9909131158110.6392-100000@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <0003546b77c29b43_mailit@mail.ngga.com>

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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 <pid of moused>, that will get it to resync more often
than not.

good luck,
-Alfred



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