From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 2 13:00:14 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3952837B401 for ; Mon, 2 Jun 2003 13:00:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mx2.biglist.com (westside.urbanblight.com [216.223.208.40]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1CD6343F3F for ; Mon, 2 Jun 2003 13:00:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from omar@mx2.biglist.com) Received: (qmail 84978 invoked by uid 601); 2 Jun 2003 20:00:12 -0000 Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2003 16:00:12 -0400 From: Omar To: Gregory Bond Message-ID: <20030602160012.A67503@westside.urbanblight.com> References: <200306020607.QAA18727@lightning.itga.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200306020607.QAA18727@lightning.itga.com.au>; from gnb@itga.com.au on Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 04:07:00PM +1000 cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hints on KVM switches w/ X X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2003 20:00:14 -0000 Similar issue here, only I'd lose the mouse on all boxes connected to the Belkin KVM. I could recover the mouse on FreeBSD by running moused and using /dev/sysmouse, then restarting moused when there was a problem, but the Windows 2000 box required a reboot (as far as I could tell, but I'm no NT admin). Ultimately, I attached the mouse back to the serial port and don't have the flakey behavior on FreeBSD. When switching to the W2K box, I frequently have to do sequential ritual left-button, center-button clicks to get things working again (cf, above NT admin comment :-) . Omar On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 04:07:00PM +1000, Gregory Bond wrote: > Has anyone got hints on using KVM switches with XFree86? I'm using a wheel > mouse and moused, but something gets out of whack when I switch away then back > to X. Next time I touch the mouse, all sorts of weird things happen for a > fraction of a second, then the mouse starts working OK. This is annoying and > dangerous because it often winds up pasting random stuff into xterms..... > > Are there any hints for making this less of a problem?