Package: xorg Version: 1:7.4+1 Severity: normal Hi there. I'm not sure if this is an xorg issue precisely, but it seems to be the best place to post this.
I use a PS2 mouse, connected to a KVM switch (or more precisely, a USB mouse, with a USB->PS2 adaptor, connected to a KVM switch that only has PS2 connections). When I switch away from X and back again, the mouse frequently becomes completely unresponsive. If I stop and start X (/etc/init.d/dkm restart), the mouse still doesn't work. If I try witching between various Linux boxes on the KVM switch, the mouse still does not work. However, as soon as I change over to a Windows XP machine (on the user login screen), the mouse starts working (in Windows XP) in a few seconds. Then when I switch back to KDE, the mouse has resumed working. Since I need to use the KVM switch fairly often, I mainly use the XP box as a way to get my mouse working again in Linux. What the above suggests, is that the XP login screen has some kind of special logic which somehow resets either the KVM's PS2 internals, or the mouse itself (I don't really understand how this is possible). Is there something I can do with the X server to do a similar "Force PS2 mouse reset", like Windows XP does automatically? Thanks, David. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_ZA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_ZA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages xorg depends on: ii konsole [x-terminal-emulator] 4:4.2.2-1 X terminal emulator for KDE 4 ii libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1] 7.4-2 A free implementation of the OpenG ii libglu1-mesa 7.4-2 The OpenGL utility library (GLU) ii x11-apps 7.3+4 X applications ii x11-session-utils 7.3+1 X session utilities ii x11-utils 7.4+1 X11 utilities ii x11-xfs-utils 7.4+1 X font server utilities ii x11-xkb-utils 7.4+2 X11 XKB utilities ii x11-xserver-utils 7.4+2 X server utilities ii xauth 1:1.0.3-2 X authentication utility ii xfce4-terminal [x-terminal-em 0.2.12-1 Xfce terminal emulator ii xfonts-100dpi 1:1.0.0-4 100 dpi fonts for X ii xfonts-75dpi 1:1.0.0-4 75 dpi fonts for X ii xfonts-base 1:1.0.0-6 standard fonts for X ii xfonts-scalable 1:1.0.0-6 scalable fonts for X ii xfonts-utils 1:7.4+1 X Window System font utility progr ii xinit 1.1.1-1 X server initialisation tool ii xkb-data 1.5-2 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu ii xserver-xorg 1:7.4+1 the X.Org X server ii xterm [x-terminal-emulator] 242-1 X terminal emulator Versions of packages xorg recommends: ii xorg-docs 1:1.4-4 Miscellaneous documentation for th xorg suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
