Re: [tlug] OT: CPU switches

[David Dibben <dibben@example.com>]

On Thu, 27 Jun 2002 09:46:27 +0900
Michael Doughty <Doughty_Michael@example.com> wrote:
> USB hub of course).  The draw back is that every time you switch to a
> box it goes through the "rediscovery" process with all of your USB 
> devices.  On some systems (NetBSD) this just results in a pause before
> input and verbose logging of the connection process to the console[1].
> Linux, however, has issues when you switch to another box while in an
> X session.  When you come back, the mouse does not. 

It works for me. I recently switched to a USB mouse (Logitech Trackman)
because the KVM switch that have "looses" my PS/2 mouse. The USB version
works fine with X, I don't need to switch out of X or restart X when I
switch machines.

Which version of X are you using? I have 4.1 which came with Redhat 4.2.
In the config file XFree86-4 I have

	InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
	InputDevice    "USB Mice" "SendCoreEvents"

I think I read in the docs somewhere that using "SendCoreEvents" rather
than "CorePointer" means that X does not complain if the mouse dissapears
and then re-appears. 

Regards

David