Bug#312335: PS/2 mouse not properly recognized on MSI KT4V mainboard
Package: kernel-image
version: 2.6.8-2-k7
1) congratulations on the 3.1 release! I've been running Sarge on a
number of machines and I love it!
2) This issue is one I should have reported some time ago. Sorry. It
seems to affect the 2.6.7 and 2.6.8 kernels but not the earlier or later
ones. I'm running a system with an MSI KT4V mainboard using an IOgear
MiniView KVM switch. The KT4V seems to have a problem with the MiniView
in that it will produce a keyboard error when I boot (except sometimes
from a cold start) if I have that system selected - but not if I am
watching a different system (go figure). This is generic to the KT4V
because I have another KT4V-based system with the same problem, but
other systems with different mainboards don't have this problem. This
information is provided as background - I know there are issues with
this KVM / Mainboard combination.
The problem I'm having with the 2.6.8 kernel however is that when I boot
the system with the KVM attached to the PS/2 mouse port, the mouse does
not respond properly once X starts. It reacts to mouse movements in a
random fashion. However, if I boot with a mouse attached directly to the
PS/2 port, then switch to the KVM afterwards, the mouse behaves properly.
I had also tried a number of workarounds including changing mouse
parameters in X and adding a mouse parameter in Grub. The latter worked
with the 2.6.7 kernel but not the 2.6.8 one. In the end, I had to go to
Sid to get a newer kernel.
This problem disappeared in the 2.6.9 kernel and is still absent in the
2.6.11 one which I am currently using (my only deviation from Sarge).
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