From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 2 23:27:23 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 25DBC37B401 for ; Mon, 2 Jun 2003 23:27:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 151FC43F85 for ; Mon, 2 Jun 2003 23:27:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.12.9/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h536RFgD058131; Tue, 3 Jun 2003 15:57:16 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Tom Convery , Gregory Bond , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 15:57:13 +0930 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: <200306020607.QAA18727@lightning.itga.com.au> <3EDB80B5.9040300@tomfoo.com> In-Reply-To: <3EDB80B5.9040300@tomfoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200306031557.14492.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -1.5 () CARRIAGE_RETURNS,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,SPAM_PHRASE_00_01,USER_AGENT X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.16 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) 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: Tue, 03 Jun 2003 06:27:23 -0000 On Tue, 3 Jun 2003 02:22, Tom Convery wrote: > What make/model of KVM and mouse are you using? I've had this happen to > me when the KVM doesn't _really_ support the mouse I'm using, e.g. using > an IntelliMouse Explorer with any Belkin KVM I've ever tried. IMHO the "correct" solution to this problem is to use USB mice and KVMs.. USB is designed to be hot swapped, PS/2 isn't. If you use USB, none of the evil reinit tricks are needed. I expected you'd end up with a lot of ums0:.. messages in your syslog from insert/removals though :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5