I had a similiar problem <motherboard also had AT style kb connector>. Not sure how I got around it though. I thougt I was having a problem with my KVM switch, maybe there really is something with the way XFree handles old kb's.
Wish I knew how it started working (after rebooting enough it automagically worked :P) James On Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:48:36 -0800 (PST) Steve Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have an old Shuttle Hot 555a mother board (circa 1997) with a pentium 200mmx. I >can easily get the system to boot of the network with defaults. But I get neither >keyboard nor mouse but the logon screen comes up just fine. > > The booger of it all is that the keyboard is not truly PS/2 type but a PS/2 keyboard >going through an 9pin Mini-Din to 5pin Din adapter to connect to the big, fat AT >connector on the mother board. The mouse is also not a PS/2 in the truest sense also >but is a PS/2 mouse connected to COM1 port by way of a PS/2 to DB9 adapter-looks like >a tiny space ship. > > The setup works fine when I boot into Windows 2000. > > There is a computer chop shop near my house which has a supply of old pre PII >systems that I would like to exploit. P-Pros CPUs for $20-cpu only. > > Thanks in advance. > > Ish. > > > > --------------------------------- > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now
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