I think Alexey was having similar issues, and may have some
non-production quality patches for you to try.

On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 09:57:36AM -0600, Chip Norkus wrote:
> 
> Greetings hackers,
> 
> I have a KVM switch and a fairly new (Logitech MouseMan+ cordless) mouse, 
> and I've found that while FreeBSD properly detects the mouse and all its 
> functionality (buttons, scrollwheel, etc) upon boot if I switch to 
> another port on the KVM and then switch back my mouse "loses" its 
> functionality.
> 
> After spending a while trying to figure out this problem (and reading PRs 
> on the issue (esp. i386/25463)) I found that a solution was not 
> immediately available, but might be somewhat easy to achieve.  In 
> particular, for my mouse, the mouse driver can and does detect invalid 
> packets, and invalid packets are always received after a return to my 
> FreeBSD system via the KVM.  I found that doing a reinitialization of the 
> device would fix the mouse, but that doing it from the interrupt handler 
> (in sys/isa/psm.c around line 2170) caused some intermediate problems.  
> Normally the mouse would just bounce around and generate click events for 
> a while and then settle down, but occasionally the driver (or maybe 
> mouse?) would lock solid and I'd have to reboot the system.
> 
> Anyways, I'd like to work further on this problem and hopefully find a 
> solution, but I'm having some trouble understanding where and what I 
> should do.  I'm not a novice C hacker, but I *am* a very novice kernel 
> hacker and would appreciate help from anyone with knowledge of the psm 
> (and atkbdc) code.  I've considered maybe adding an ioctl to reset the 
> mouse and adding a signal handler to moused to force a reset, but that 
> seems kind of silly when the kernel driver can detect the problem itself 
> and resolve it.  On the other hand, maybe that's the right way to go?  
> Advice would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> -chip
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