On Thu, 4 Jul 2019, King Beowulf wrote:
I know you now have a fix, but I didn't see in this thread if you tried a full hard power reboot.
Ed, That's because I briefly considered that and decided that almost all peripheral issues on linux machines can be resolved without a reboot. It ain't Windoze.
The old PS/2 connectors where never designed to be hot pluggable (depending on motherboard implementation).
I wondered about this, too.
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.
Ah, good to know. In any case, the front panel USB ports will do for now. I need to make time to get a lot of hardware stuff finished, including transitioning from this older 32-bit server/workstation to the new 64-bit server/workstation. Sigh. Best regards, Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
