[TriLUG] RHEL KVM Switch Mouse Problem

[Ron Joffe]

On Tuesday 22 February 2005 16:47, James Brigman wrote:
> > I've ran into this problem before and I believe it has something to do
> > with the 2.6 kernel having input devices integrated into it or
> > something like that.  I think that if you use the 2.4 kernel you'll be
> > fine.
>
> I fixed it once in RH 9.0, but I can't remember what I did. Ever since
> then, regardless of the version of Red Hat, it's happened that the mouse
> loses sync when the kvm switches away. I honestly can't tell you I've
> ever tested to see if the problem exists in any other Linux, but I might
> wipe one of the systems tonight and see...
>
> JKB

I wouldn't spend too much time at it. I can verify that all flavors of SuSE 
(5.? to current Including Enterprise) have the same issue.

The changing to virtual console and back to the X console as Jason suggested 
is the only workaround I have found.

Ron