On Sat, 8 Mar 2003, Brian McGrew wrote:

> Hopefully, someone can shed some light on this for me!
> 
> I'm running RedHat 8.0 with all the latest and greatist patches as of today
> (3/8/03).
> 
> I have a Belkin OmniView 2 port KVM switch.  My Linux box on one port and
> WinXP on the other.  Switching back and forth between the two seems to give
> me grief with my mouse in X.  Windows is not effected by this problem; only
> X.  It seems that when I switch back to X, the mouse wants to jump around
> randomly and clicks at random.  Anyone ever hear of this before?
> 
> Thanks,

  It's kindof standard behavior.  XFree86 doesn't have mouse protocol
error handling so when it loses state during the switch you get junk.
VT switching away and back and it should reset the mouse.


                        Mark.

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