On 08/16/2013 03:58 PM, Dick Steffens wrote: > On 08/16/2013 03:31 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: >> On Fri, 16 Aug 2013, Dick Steffens wrote: >> >>> Is there a command line tool to rescan for a PS2 mouse? >> Dick, >> >> gpm is the tool you want. On Slackware it's '/etc/rc.d/rc.gpm restart'. >> Translate that to the distribution you use. > > That wasn't installed. But I found a help page that described installing > it with apt-get. I did that, and ran it, but it didn't make any > difference. Rather than spend a lot of time with it, I just rebooted and > the PS2 mouse works as expected. > > Thanks anyway. >
If I remember correctly, PS/2 ports are not "hot-plug" like USB or Firewire. You really should NOT unplug/plug while the computer is powered on. That is one reason we've moved off special purpose ports such as these. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PS/2_connector -Ed _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
