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

[Jim Kinney]

Forgot. If there are two ps2 ports, the one closest to the main board is the
keyboard. Mouse won't work in keyboard socket.

I have seen solo ps2 keyboard socket and usb-only mouse machines.

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 9:08 AM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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