On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, PJ wrote: > I am currently experiencing a very frustrating problem with my > Belkin KVM not properly emulating my MS IntelliMouse Explorer. Upon > switching from PC1 (my Windows 2000 box), to PC2 (my Gentoo Linux > box) my mouse acts fine. Then if I switch back to PC1, then to PC2 > again, my mouse goes haywire. It acts as if I'm pressing random > keys, bounces around the screen, and will eventually crash X if I do > not manually restart it (Ctrl + Alt + Backspace). This occurs with > every WM and desktop environment I have tried so far, so I'm sure it > is an issue with X. Restarting X always solves this problem, however > restarting X everytime I go from PC to PC is not a long term viable > solution.
> My main question is this, is there anyway to reinitialize just the > Mouse, so that I don't have to restart X constantly? I have tried > switching consoles, but it always seems to crash X. I take it that means that switching to the text console and back by typing Ctl + Alt + F1 then Ctl + Alt + F7 crashes X :-( Are you running gpm (mouse support for linux text console) ? It *may* help if that is configured to use IMPS/2 as well. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
