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Why doesn’t the
mouse sync in DOS
when performing
Console Redirection?
The Dell BIOS is emulating the mouse driver as a PS/2 mouse.
By design, the PS/2 mouse uses relative position for the mouse
pointer, which causes the lag in syncing. DRAC 4 has a USB
mouse driver, which allows absolute position and closer
tracking of the mouse pointer. Even if DRAC 4 passes the
USB absolute mouse position to the Dell BIOS, the BIOS
emulation would convert it back to relative position and the
behavior would remain.
Why doesn’t the
mouse sync under the
Red Hat Enterprise
Linux text console?
Virtual KVM requires the USB mouse driver, but the USB
mouse driver is available only under X-Windows.
Is there a way to verify
that the ATI video
driver update is
installed on Red Hat
Enterprise Linux
version 2.1?
Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 3 update 3 or greater and
Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 2.1 update 5 or greater
already have suitable video drivers. On other versions you can
verify the video driver update with the command:
rpm -qa | grep
radeon_7000m_dell_server
The RPM rhel**_radeon_7000m_dell_server-0.4-1 or later
should be installed. This RPM is available at www.dell.com.
Table 6-4. Using Console Redirection: Frequently Asked Questions
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