Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 26 Jan 2003 14:13:37 +0100 | From | Vojtech Pavlik <> | Subject | Re: 2.5.44: Still has KVM + Mouse issues |
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On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 06:57:24PM -0500, Jon Grimm wrote: > Hello, > I see that Thomas Molina 2.5 problem list no longer carries a KVM and > mouse > issue where it previously had. > > If a fix is available I'd love to test it out as I still see strange > behavior > with an Intellimouse and my MasterView CS-104 KVM switch (yep its > old). > > With a few trusty printks, it looks like after I switch away & back > into 2.5.44, the mouse is now sending 3 byte packets instead of the 4 it > previously was. > > As you can imagine this causes all sorts of havok as the packets are > interpretted completely wrong from there on out. If there is enough > delay between > events, the synchonization logic kicks in and throws the packet out, > since > it thinks the 4th byte is old (where it is really the first byte of the > next > 3-byte packet). This generates those pesky "psmouse.c: Lost > synchronization ".. > However, much of the time an incorrect 4-byte frame gets interpretted > and > the X going totally haywire. > > BTW, serio_rescan() gets the mouse back into a happy 4-byte generating > state.
Use the psmouse_noext option.
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