On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 12:58:38PM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: > I have a KVM, the older kind, controlled with a rotary switch, that I use on > several systems. The keyboard and mouse connections are PS2, not usb. If I > switch to system C and have to reboot or power down and don't get the switch > back to system A or B fast enough, then I sometimes lose all mouse and > keyboard response on A or B or both. I can still connect to the systems by > ssh. > > Is there any way, through ssh, that I can get the system to start reading the > keyboard and mouse again? Is there some service I can restart or something? > I'd really like to be able to reactivate the connections without having to > reboot. My first inclination would be to take the keyboard and mouse apart, and hang a few thousand microfarads across the power rails. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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