[wplug] KVM Question

[Ben Beige]

If you switch the KVM while in a text window of some form or another do you 
get some garbled text?
if so possibly  your KVM is sending a signal that your mouse driver 
dislikes when your switching (my brothers kvm sends odd signals I know)


Ben

At 04:50 PM 5/27/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>Don,
>
>         I tried adding to my XF86Config file:
>
>Section "ServerFlags"
>         AllowMouseOpenFail
>EndSection
>
>         to no avail...still not working
>
>Patryk,
>
>         I did unplug the mouse directly, waited 30 seconds, plugged it back
>in and it worked fine.  Then switched KVM over to another machine, back to
>Linux box, and mouse was again erratic.  It will move only in the horizontal
>plane, and spontaneously act as though I am clicking the mouse, and I am
>not.  I have it set up as a generic 3 button PS/2, and I don't know who
>makes the KVM I am using (it says "MULTI-PC CONROLLER" on the face, with no
>manufacturer's info anywhere on the box).
>
>Is there a way I can stop and restart XServer?  Does the mouse driver
>initialize with XServer?
>
>Jonathan
>