On Thursday 11 September 2003 00:49, Matt Neimeyer wrote: > Hey All, > > I want to use a recently aquired Trendnet TK-205i KVM with my Gentoo and > Windows boxen. The Windows box is okay with everything (including the > hardware drivers for my Cirque Glidepad.) > > The Gentoo box however, even though it was the one that was originally > running fine with the Glidepad using the GlidepointPS/2 mouse protocol, > will flick the mouse cursor (and button taps) randomly all over the > screen when I use the glidepad through the KVM. > > In searching on Google, it appears that KVM's and X don't get along > well. BUT the notes that I found all indicate XFree 4.0.1, I'm using the > XFree 4.3.0-r2 ebuild. Has this been fixed? As an option perhaps? Or a > new mouse KVM protocol... etc. > > For now I'm just using two mice... but that defeats the purpose. Any > ideas? > > Thanks! > > Matt Neimeyer
Use the 'kbrequest' action of init to restart gpm. Put the following in /etc/inittab to enable the keyboard handler: kb:12345:kbrequest:/etc/init.d/gpm restart Assign the key combination "CTRL - ALT - ESC" to the keyboard signal in by putting the following in /etc/keymaps: control alt keycode 1 = KeyboardSignal Add /etc/keymaps to the KEYMAP var in /etc/rc.conf so the key map will load on boot: KEYMAP="us /etc/keymaps" If you don't want to reboot, run 'loadkeys /etc/keymaps' to load the keyboard map. Now, on any console hit "CTRL - ALT - ESC" to restart gpm. Note: this will not work in X so you'll have to be on a virtual console. Use "CTRL - ALT - F1" to get to a vc. There is a way to do it in X but I have not bothered. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
