On Tue, Nov 16, 1999 at 04:11:51PM -0800, Longere Philippe wrote:
> Hi,
> I recently bought a Y PS2 Cable which is supposed to enable the use of a
> keyboard and a mouse on a sigle ps2 port, but i didn't get it working
> for
> the keyboard ....
> Did anyone have any experience with this kind of material ???
Yes... Does your laptop support this?
Reason I ask is that I have several laptops. My Compaq Armada 7770
works just fine and I can use a PS/2 mouse and an appropriate keyboard on
a Y adapter just fine. OTOH... My two Compaq Armada 1300s do NOT. I can
use one or the other, not both. The same cable that works on the 7770 does
no good on either of my 1300s. I believe (but have no facts to back it
up) that it's a BIOS issue. My solution on the 1300s has been to use
a serial external mouse and use the dual source option to gpm and feed it
up to X. Not optimal, but it works. I would be delighted to have an
upgrade that would get that Y adapter to work...
> Thanks,
> Philippe
Mike
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