Re: No mouse in gpm: Resolved-Sort Of
On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 18:45:46 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote:
>On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 at 06:41 GMT, Mark Healey penned:
>>
>> After trying several different values in gpm.conf, on a wile hair, I
>> decided to try bypassing my KVM switch. That fixed it.
>>
>> This problem doesn't exist in Knoppix.
>>
>> It kind of sucks having an extra mouse on the table but I can live
>> with that for a while.
>>
>> It looks like something determines that there is no mouse attached
>> when it goes through the KVM. Is anything I can do to fix this.
>>
>
>What brand of KVM switch, out of curiosity?
It's a Linksys 4 port.
>I have a Belkin 4-port switch, and when I used it to switch between a
>windows and a debian machine, the windows machine was perfectly happy,
>but the mouse pointer freaked out on the debian machine. I ended up
>having to log out to whatever-dm and back in again, or something stupid.
>
>My understanding is that certain other KVM switches don't have this
>problem, but I don't know which.
The fact that this problem doesn't exist in Knoppix, windows or
Redhat indicates that debian has the problem.
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