Re: KVM & mouse wheel

[Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>]

On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 07:38:55AM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On Wednesday 04 August 2004 02:18 am, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 12:25:19AM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > 
> > > On Tuesday 03 August 2004 11:29 pm, Marko Macek wrote:
> > > > Jesper Juhl wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > <>I also had problems with my KVM switch and mouse when I initially 
> > > > > moved to
> > > > > 2.6, but adding this kernel boot parameter fixed it, meybe it will help
> > > > > you as well : psmouse.proto=imps
> > > > 
> > > > This doesn't help. Only the patch I sent helps me. The problem is that the
> > > > even with psmouse.proto=imps or exps, the driver still probes for 
> > > > synaptics which I
> > > > consider a bug.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > No it is not - Synaptics with a track-point on a passthrough port will have
> > > track-point disabled if it is not reset after probing for imps/exps.
> >  
> > Hmm, does the imps/exps probe succeed in this case?
> 
> No, it does not, at least not mine. It either does bare PS/2 or native, but
> there are other Synaptics touchpads that can also do imps.
 
Ok, so how about issuing a reset when the imps probe fails? That'd take
care of all the cases, and I suppose a Synaptics pad that can do imps
will not be confused by it.

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Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs, SuSE CR