Bug 55339

Summary:	Mouse input lost after using switch box
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Joergen Thomsen <jth>
Component:	XFree86	Assignee:	Mike A. Harris <mharris>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Description Joergen Thomsen 2001-10-29 22:13:43 UTC

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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98)

Description of problem:
Mechanical switch box switching keyboard (PS/2), mouse(PS/2, Logitech 
Cordless Mouseman Pro) and display. After switching to the other PC and 
back the mouse input is lost rendering the switch box virtually useless.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Switch to other PC
2. Switch back
3.
	

Actual Results:  Cursor frozen at one spot.

Expected Results:  Cursor following mouse movements

Additional info:

The problem appeared after upgrading the kernel 2.4.2-2 to 2.4.9 and the 
glibc to glibc-2.2.4-19.
Mouse can be recovered by the screen test in the Xconfigurator.

Comment 1 Mike A. Harris 2001-10-30 02:33:02 UTC

Red Hat Linux does not officially support using KVM switch boxes.  Many
of these devices work fine, while others do not.  Some of the problems
are software related, and some are the actual devices themselves.  Since
we do not have all of this hardware, we cannot actively support it.

Comment 2 Mike A. Harris 2002-11-09 00:45:05 UTC

I'd also like to add, that 99.99999% of all KVM related bugs, are the
KVM itself causing the problem.  It is rarely if ever a software problem.

Comment 3 Mike A. Harris 2002-11-09 00:46:59 UTC

Closing against master dupe

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 76124 ***