At 07:02 PM 7/3/02 +0000, Richard Adams wrote: >On Wednesday 03 July 2002 17:21, adwin wrote: > > Hello Richard, > >Hello. > > > > > yes ... if I use my ps2 port..it will work..but unfortunatly .. my ps2 > > port is broken...so I cannot use any ps2 mouse anyomore...:( > > so the choice is .. use my usb port. :) > >What leads you to belive its broken, to be honest i have never seen or come >across a M/Board that had a broken ps/2 port, i would point fingers at a >disconneted plug or broken wird somewhere in its connector because to be >honest all a ps/2 port is is a resurved channel to IRQ12. >Or have you setup your BIOS to allow other things/devices to use IRQ12.??
Richard -- While do I do not know this fellow's situation, I have had experience encountering defective PS/2 interfaces. In my last job, I inherited as Win2K development workstation from my predecessor, and it used a serial-port trackball. I wondered why, wince the same physical trackball could be connected either way (serial or PS/2). When I tried to switch it, or to use a different PS/2 pointing device, the machine consistently crashed, early enough in the startup process that it looked like a BIOS problem. I did the usual fiddling with the BIOS -- this was over a year ago, so I don't recall the exact details of what I did -- but it was no help. So a defective PS/2 interface is a legitimate possibility. That said ... is dropping even further back, to a serial-port mouse, an option for him? While USB support is good now (on current 2.4.x kernels, at least), I don't know how good support is for pointing devices (or even if it exists). -- -----------------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"-------------- Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo Palo Alto, California, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
