On Sat, 2003-12-27 at 11:22, Horror Vacui wrote: > On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 10:59:35 -0600 > Steven wrote: > > > My 2.6.0 problems so far are: > > > > * I have a KVM that doesn't support mouse and keyboard emulation. When > > I switch away from Linux and then come back the mouse cursor goes > > crazy. Fine enough because I use gpm in repeater mode, have X reading > > /dev/gpmdata and use a keyboard sequence to restart gpm for me; > > however; under 2.6.0 restarting gpm doesn't help. The mouse cursor > > still goes crazy and the kernel reports "psmouse.c: Wheel Mouse at > > isa0060/serio1/input0 lost synchronization, throwing 2 bytes away." > > Hm, I think I read something about this kind of thing in a description > on www.kernelnewbies.org (IIRC it's called "what to expect from 2.6). It > might be a clue.
From http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/davej/misc/post-halloween-2.6.txt: Input layer. ~~~~~~~~~~~~ <snip> - If you use a KVM switcher, and experience problems, booting with the boot time argument 'psmouse_noext' should fix your problems. ----- I will try this out and see if it works. Thanks for the pointer to Kernel Newbies. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
