Mouse and KVM

Terry Polzin fox3ec208 at wideopenwest.com
Thu Jan 20 10:38:13 UTC 2005


On Thursday January 20 2005 00:46, Craig White wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 22:32 -0700, David Mamanakis wrote:
> > "Is your mouse and KVM a PS/2 type (little round DIN connector) or USB?"
> >
> > PS2, Logitech Trackman Marble.
> >
> > "Also, does the mouse continue to work on your other non-FC3 systems
> > attached to the same KVM?"
> >
> > Yes, all of my windows boxes (except the Win98 machine) connect to the
> > KVM and work fine while switching...
>
> ---
> The archives are full of this topic...
>
> but to shorten your search
>
> edit /boot/grub/grub.conf to something like...
>
> title Fedora Core (2.6.10-1.741_FC3)
>  root (hd0,0)
>  kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.10-1.741_FC3 ro root=LABEL=/ psmouse.proto=bare
>  initrd /initrd-2.6.10-1.741_FC3.img
>
> Note that 'psmouse.proto=bare' is on the 'kernel' line. This will kill
> the scroll wheel and the ability to use the 'middle button paste'
> features but does promote mouse sanity on Belkin and other less than
> optimal KVM
psmouse.proto=imps is a better option works well on my Belkin KVM.  Keeps the 
scroll wheel and middle button.

Terry
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