On 7/4/19 1:13 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Thu, 4 Jul 2019, Rich Shepard wrote: > >> Perhaps someone on the xfce mail list has a solution for that. So far >> only >> one response, "Well, it just works for me on Fedora." So? > > No help on the xfce mail list, but futzing (setting the driver to the > Kensington one and having enabled it to stick, and retarting X) the > trackball now works again on both consoles and GUI when connected via a USB > port. The little hub allows more connections, too. > > Thanks, Fred. > > Regards, > > Rich
I know you now have a fix, but I didn't see in this thread if you tried a full hard power reboot. The old PS/2 connectors where never designed to be hot pluggable (depending on motherboard implementation). On some newer mobos, the PS/2 DIN is actually converted to USB internally - and is thus hot pluggable. The USB-PS/2 DIN adaptors can muddy up this as well. I've found also that the PS/2 DIN combo versions (for keyboard OR mouse) often need a full power cycle. All this is due to the OS (any species) getting the hardware info from the BIOS instead of a clean pass through. If the BIOS don't see it, neither will the OS. In the BIOS there is also sometimes a setting for "plug and play OS". If that is ON or YES, then the BIOS does no hardware detection and just passes everything to the OS to detect. I recommend turning this on for any Linux OS. -Ed
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