Mouse / psm0 via D-Link KVM won't load on 5.4, does on 5.3

Doug White dwhite at gumbysoft.com
Thu May 5 10:36:43 PDT 2005


On Mon, 2 May 2005, Harry Coin wrote:

> I've found that 5.4 as of today won't load the psm0 driver if the box is
> connected through a KVM instead of directly to the mouse.
>
> When I plug the mouse directly into the box, 5.4 and 5.3 load psm0 no
> problem.
>
> When I plug the mouse in via the KVM, 5.4 won't load psm0 but 5.3 will.
>
> If I plug the mouse in directly at boot time under 5.4, so psm0 loads, then
> (don't do this at home) hot-unplug it and plug in the kvm-- the mouse works
> via the KVM.

Can you get boot -v output from both situations? This shows some of the
probe communication that may indicate why the port isn't probing with the
kvm attached.

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