From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 (CK-APC) Description of problem: This Bug is known about however from what I'm reading on previous reports the solution put forward is to buy another switch! This is a hardware problem admitedly but every other operating system seems to of found a work around for it. AND NOW This bug has been fixed in XFree86 latest release as of a month ago but still nothing has been done to provided an update for XFree86 for Redhat I would (and I'm sure many others) would really like to have an update for this. I don't really want to have to download the sources myself and figure out how to install it.. At the moment the problem affects and IMPS/2 mice, not standard PS/2 mice However I really like the little wheel and third button :) The only way around this problem at the moment is to do a CTRL+ALT+F1 then CTRL+ALT+F7, this resets the mouse and gets things back in sync, and is a pain when switching back and forth all the time. Sorry this was a bit long winded Thanks Richard Tresidder Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Switch to another computer 2. switch back to linux computer 3. crazy mouse Actual Results: Mouse mayhem Expected Results: Happy controlable mouse Additional info:
KVM switches are unsupported - regardless of where the problem exists, be it in the KVM switch, XFree86, the mouse/keyboard/monitor/videocard or wherever. If a KVM switch works, that is great, but if it does not, then the user using that KVM switch has found out the hard way why we do not support KVM switches. Also, Red Hat does not release updates of software the size of XFree86 for a single bug or single issue such as this, even if it is with supported hardware. In general, XFree86 is updated only when there are security issues that need to be fixed. Occasionally we release updates as well for software bugs, but not for one single bug. And this one isn't a bug. The fix you are refering to, is a software workaround for a KVM glitch, one that is not supported. That fix will not be backported to prior versions of Red Hat Linux. Red Hat developmental rawhide and our phoebe beta contain the latest XFree86 code, and you can try our beta or wait until our final release of our next OS if you would like to try the XFree86 version that alledgedly works around this KVM switch hardware bug. The alternative is to purchase a better KVM switch that does not have this hardware problem - although even proper working KVM's are still unsupported. If you require details as to why KVM switches are supported, you can query bugzilla with the keyword "KVM" against the XFree86 component if you like. I'm closing this issue as NOTABUG for 7.3, but it is also effectively closed RAWHIDE since the fix you mention is in CVS X, which is in RAWHIDE.