On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 13:05:16 -0800 (PST)
Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> wrote:
> Anything related to PS/2 dropping out on a KVM switch is almost
> certainly related to problems resynchronizing the keyboard/mouse
> stream after it has been 'glitched'. E.G. the same issue occurs
> if you unplug a PS/2 mouse and plug it back in.
>
> This is code I've only glanced at but if someone wants to take a
> look at it and play around (add printf's to see what the stream
> looks like after a glitch to see if it's possible to resynchronize
> it in a better way then the current code does)... then I'd go for
> it.
I may have a clue: I found that if I boot with
moused_enable="YES"
then I don't have the problem.. if I set it to "NO", I do. I'd be
interested to know if this has the same effect on other people having
similar keyboard-loss problems.
It makes some sense that the mouse could be the problem in my (KVM
switch) case, but I can't see how that would affect PS/2 keyboards
without a KVM switch. I don't know how they interact though.
-Chris