[ale] How 2 get a PS/2 mouse goin' on Debian ?

[Jim Kinney]

Unless there are two of those sockets or its a mutant version (laptops did
this) where a Y-dongle was used to split the one socket. It should be
nothing more than have the mouse plugged in and power it up. You can't, in
general, hot-plug a PS2 mouse or keyboard. Many bios' will not activate them
unless there is a device attached at boot up.

As far as the software side goes, it's a default, always on thing for every
distro for the last 10 years. If it doesn't work for you, and the reboot
didn't start it, the socket is either dead (hotplugging can kill them since
they can have a 1.5A line and ground contact will pop a tiny fuse) or it
uses that stupid splitter (I can't recall if the splitter was a 6 or 8 pin
thing).

2008/4/22 Courtney Thomas <courtneycthomas at bellsouth.net>:

>  Is the small round 6 pin plug [like the keyboard plug] the correct socket
> ?
>
> What's the minimum process, please ?
>
> Thank you,
> Courtney
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