hints on KVM switches w/ X

beon at sympatico.ca beon at sympatico.ca
Tue Jun 3 20:03:34 PDT 2003


Hi,

Years ago, I encountered a problem with my XFree86, KVM
and PS/2 mouse where the cursor would jump to the side of
the screen and only wiggle when I moved the mouse.
I eventually found a solution searching for messages like
	psmintr: out of sync (0000 != 0008)
based on what I saw in my syslog.

This message looks familiar:
<http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?
  fetch=238003+0+archive/1998/freebsd-bugs/19980301.freebsd-bugs>

I think the solution I used was setting a bit in my kernel's
psm config to not sync and rebuilding. YMMV

Excuse me if this has already been answered.  I only get
the digest version.

cheers
Ken


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?



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