Greetings all:
I have a CentOS 3.6 and 4.3 box sharing a kvm switch. Switching from the 4.3 box to the 3.6 and back again, the mouse stops responding. The keyboard works just fine, and I can ssh into the box. I have tried <ctl><alt><bksp> and while it does restart the x server, it doesn't seem to affect the mouse.
Is there something I can run to get the mouse recognized again short of restarting the computer?
thanks
markus
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I have a CentOS 3.6 and 4.3 box sharing a kvm switch. Switching from the
4.3 box to the 3.6 and back again, the mouse stops responding. >The keyboard works just fine, and I can ssh into the box.
I have tried <ctl><alt><bksp> and while it does restart the x server, it
doesn't seem to affect the mouse.
Is there something I can run to get the mouse recognized again short of
restarting the computer?
Try adding "psmouse.proto=bare" to the kernel line in /etc/grub.conf. There are some other protocols you could try if this one is unsuitable.
Daveh
On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 20:46 +0100, Dave Hatton wrote:
I have a CentOS 3.6 and 4.3 box sharing a kvm switch. Switching from the
4.3 box to the 3.6 and back again, the mouse stops responding. >The keyboard works just fine, and I can ssh into the box.
I have tried <ctl><alt><bksp> and while it does restart the x server, it
doesn't seem to affect the mouse.
Is there something I can run to get the mouse recognized again short of
restarting the computer?
Try adding "psmouse.proto=bare" to the kernel line in /etc/grub.conf. There are some other protocols you could try if this one is unsuitable.
Also, with my kvm switch I need to set the driver in /etc/X11/xorg.conf to for the mouse to:
Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
instead of IMPS/2 or PS/2
--- Johnny Hughes mailing-lists@hughesjr.com wrote:
On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 20:46 +0100, Dave Hatton wrote:
I have a CentOS 3.6 and 4.3 box sharing a kvm switch. Switching from the
4.3 box to the 3.6 and back again, the mouse stops responding. >The keyboard works just fine, and I can ssh into the box.
I have tried <ctl><alt><bksp> and while it does restart the x server, it
doesn't seem to affect the mouse.
Is there something I can run to get the mouse recognized again short of
restarting the computer?
Try adding "psmouse.proto=bare" to the kernel line in /etc/grub.conf. There are some other protocols you could try if this one is unsuitable.
Also, with my kvm switch I need to set the driver in /etc/X11/xorg.conf to for the mouse to:
Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"instead of IMPS/2 or PS/2
Thank you for the suggestion. I have made this modification to the xorg.conf file, and restarted X. I still am not getting any response from the mouse. Is there a service I can restart, or a program I can run to try and re-enable the mouse, or will I have to reboot the computer?
thanks again
markus
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I have a CentOS 3.6 and 4.3 box sharing a kvm switch. Switching from the
4.3 box to the 3.6 and back again, the mouse stops responding. >The keyboard works just fine, and I can ssh into the box.
I have tried <ctl><alt><bksp> and while it does restart the x server, it
doesn't seem to affect the mouse.
Is there something I can run to get the mouse recognized again short of
restarting the computer?
Try adding "psmouse.proto=bare" to the kernel line in /etc/grub.conf. There are some other protocols you could try if this
one is unsuitable.
Also, with my kvm switch I need to set the driver in /etc/X11/xorg.conf to for the mouse to:
Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"instead of IMPS/2 or PS/2
Thank you for the suggestion. I have made this modification to the
xorg.conf file, and restarted X. I still am not getting any response >from the mouse. Is there a service I can restart, or a program I can run to try and re-enable the mouse, or will I have to reboot the
computer?
Did you add "psmouse.proto=bare" to the kernel line in grub.conf and reboot?
I guess not from your response. You will need to do this.
Daveh
mrrs spake the following on 4/10/2006 12:19 PM:
Greetings all:
I have a CentOS 3.6 and 4.3 box sharing a kvm switch. Switching from the 4.3 box to the 3.6 and back again, the mouse stops responding. The keyboard works just fine, and I can ssh into the box. I have tried <ctl><alt><bksp> and while it does restart the x server, it doesn't seem to affect the mouse.
Is there something I can run to get the mouse recognized again short of restarting the computer?
thanks
markus
Do you have a Belkin KVM? They are notorious for not working well with Linux.
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