From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050328 Fedora/1.7.6-1.2.5 Description of problem: The mouse works fine on console or X until I switch the KVM to another system and return. After I switch back, the mouse won't move. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Boot 2.Switch KVM to another system 3.Switch back Additional info: Restarting gpm doesn't help. Changing virtual terminals doesn't help. The mouse works fine under XP on the same system. Logitech mouseman optical dual sensor (PS/2). The KVM is generic. But FC2 and FC3 (all Athlon) work fine with it.
So I upgraded my main FC2 box to FC3+updates. Now this happens on systems that used to be fine. It's not a FC4 bug, but a linux-2.6.11 bug. -Dan
There have been similar bugs logged in Bugzilla before. When this happened to me a few kernels ago (like probably during fc3-test), the fix was to put psmouse.proto=bare in grub.conf. That worked for me up through 2.6.11-1.14_FC3. However, it stopped working for me with 2.6.11-1.27_FC3, so I had to go back to 2.6.11-1.14_FC3. Just in case it helps, here's a little bit of an oddity: the mouse would only lock on my Pentium 4 machine (running the 686 kernel). I also have a Pentium (running the 586 kernel) and a Pentium 3 (running the 686 kernel) machine on the same switch. The mouse was fine on the Pentium and Pentium 3 with the 2.6.11-1.27_FC3 kernel, but I had to back out the kernel on both the Pentium and Pentium 4 to be able to switch among all boxes without ill effects. PS to DAC: Only you can change the component from gpm to kernel. It needs to be kernel.
Perhaps I spoke too soon in my last comment. The mouse now locks on my P4 box with the older kernel. I've tried kernel 2.6.10-1.770, too. I begin to suspect my recent difficulty is with hardware. The onset just happened to coincide with a new kernel. My other boxes are fine with the KVM with psmouse.proto=bare in grub.conf.
In my case, it seemed like having the older kernels in the rotation seemed to help things. It's almost like the problem affects the next guy in the rotation, but the older kernels were resetting something. I couldn't pin this down to something exact. It just takes too long to try different kernel combinations. The problem went away when I switched to a nicer KVM (USB based). One on hand, its clearly a hardware related problem. On the other hand, it used to work and now it doesn't.
An update has been released for Fedora Core 3 (kernel-2.6.12-1.1372_FC3) which may contain a fix for your problem. Please update to this new kernel, and report whether or not it fixes your problem. If you have updated to Fedora Core 4 since this bug was opened, and the problem still occurs with the latest updates for that release, please change the version field of this bug to 'fc4'. Thank you.
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