> Hello everyone. This is my first post here so please excuse me if I have > forgotten any information or I have asked in the wrong place. > > 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. > > I am currently using the following mouse settings in my X config file: > > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Mouse1" > Driver "mouse" > Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" > Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" > Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" > EndSection > > Incidentally, switching the Protocol to PS/2 from IMPS/2 causes the mouse to act > the same way as if I had switched PC's twice. > > 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. Any help anyone has on this issue would be greatly > appreciated. I realize it is a problem with my KVM being crappy and NOT a flaw > with X, but any type of work around would be GREAT.
Switching consoles should be a valid workaround. An X server crash is a flaw with X and should be investigated further and the crash eliminated. > This probably means nothing, but instead of crashing Windows 2000 simply acts as > if I scrolled my mouse up 3 lines, then goes back to normal. I have been > searching for an answer for this problem for the greater part of a week now, and > no one seems to have any ideas. I've run out of ideas myself, so this is my last > long shot before I consider scraping the KVM idea all together. Have you tried using xmsconfig to change the protocol to a different one and then back to the correct one? _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
