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Hi Folks,

I recently had to apply a few official Sun patches to three systems to
fix a kernel panic on return to OBP. The patches worked great and I
can now drop to OBP with no issues... however... since applying the
patches my KVM mouse/track-pad stopped working on all the systems!
Its a non-Sun device, but it works fine on many pre-patched systems
and where ever I find the device on the Internet its listed as being
Sun compatible. The keyboard works fine, but the track pad fails to
move the mousen at all - I can't test the buttons as I can't hover
over anything to click. I tried connecting a Sun Type 6 USB keyboard
and mouse to the system and they work with no issues.

The KVM is a Meridian RKP117-801E 1u 17inch monitor keyboard draw,
8-port KVM - I think its basically a generic KVM branded Meridian as
if you do a Google for RKP117-801E you will see many makes of KVM -
these all look the same. Its basically a black 1U draw with a 17" LCD
display, a keyboard and mouse with a built in KVM switch, all
connected to the systems via USB and the Monitor.

The patches I applied were - 115553-13, 117171-10, 117171-12 and
117418-01.

I know the benefits of using a serial console or remotely
administrating the servers etc. etc. but these particular systems need
to be used with a keyboard and mouse so I really need to get this
issue fixed.

Is there a config file that I can put back to how it used to be, or a
settings file that I can alter to make it see the USB track pad at
all? Is there a way I can see if the USB device is seen at all, or
are there any other things people can suggest?

Thanks,

Andrew McCall

> I know the benefits of using a serial console or remotely
> administrating the servers etc. etc. but these particular systems need
> to be used with a keyboard and mouse so I really need to get this
> issue fixed.

I guess that if you need more than just a remote console then you're
referring to an X based window display?

Alternative 1

Just use XDMCP via the CDE login prompt to remotely login to the other
Solaris machines on the network (assuming that they're networked of
course). Basically use one Sun box as an X head for all machines
(including the one that the mouse and keyboard are hooked up to).

Alternative 2

Run the X-server on one machine with the mouse/keyboard and get the
other machines to establish remote X client connections over the network
(once again assuming that the machines are networked).

HTH,
AT

In article <4aa50a46.0410270654.1eba5b56@posting.google.com >, andrew.mccall@gmail.com (Andrew McCall) wrote:
>Hi Folks,
>
>I recently had to apply a few official Sun patches to three systems to
>fix a kernel panic on return to OBP. The patches worked great and I
>can now drop to OBP with no issues... however... since applying the
>patches my KVM mouse/track-pad stopped working on all the systems!
>Its a non-Sun device, but it works fine on many pre-patched systems
>and where ever I find the device on the Internet its listed as being
>Sun compatible. The keyboard works fine, but the track pad fails to
>move the mousen at all - I can't test the buttons as I can't hover
>over anything to click. I tried connecting a Sun Type 6 USB keyboard
>and mouse to the system and they work with no issues.
>

Make sure that the device didn't get renamed to a new number/instance.
This happens a lot on USB devices, since they allow hot plugging.
The system might be seeing it as a new "second" device, and ignoring
the first one. This happens when you move a graphics card to a
new slot, too. It will now appear to be fb1 in the new slot, not fb0.
I've also seen this occasionally happen when new drivers are loaded.
It forgets all the old stuff, and creates new ones.

This may have happened to the kbd and mouse, too. But the system
knows about those, and will always search for one of each and
make it the default one.

You might need to do a "boot -r" to re-detect this, too.
"reboot -- -r" works from unix.





>The KVM is a Meridian RKP117-801E 1u 17inch monitor keyboard draw,
>8-port KVM - I think its basically a generic KVM branded Meridian as
>if you do a Google for RKP117-801E you will see many makes of KVM -
>these all look the same. Its basically a black 1U draw with a 17" LCD
>display, a keyboard and mouse with a built in KVM switch, all
>connected to the systems via USB and the Monitor.
>
>The patches I applied were - 115553-13, 117171-10, 117171-12 and
>117418-01.
>
>I know the benefits of using a serial console or remotely
>administrating the servers etc. etc. but these particular systems need
>to be used with a keyboard and mouse so I really need to get this
>issue fixed.
>
>Is there a config file that I can put back to how it used to be, or a
>settings file that I can alter to make it see the USB track pad at
>all? Is there a way I can see if the USB device is seen at all, or
>are there any other things people can suggest?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Andrew McCall