On Wednesday 03 July 2002 19:10, Ray Olszewski wrote: > 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).
Oops i see from my own words that i implied that it was not really possable to get a broken ps/2 port, i did not mean to imply that at all, i mean i have never come across a broken one, i have had many problems with ps/2 devices presented to me tho' all or which i found an answer for. Things which i have found concerning ps/2 ports which were said to be non-working were; Some concern windows some all some others. Hot-plugging, after the voltage/current falls because a device is unplugged the voltage/current will not return untill the machine is rebooted. A BIOS problem, the owner assiged IRQ 12 to some other device. Broken or lose wires. On older Mobo's an internal plug lose or bad contacts. Possably more but i cannot really remember at this minute. I just took a peek at kernel source 2.2.21 USB has come up one hell of a lot, all i did was grep for the word USB and then MOUSE in 'less' on the file linux/Documentation/Configure.help One which i think Adwin would like to see is; Mouse support CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV Say Y here if you want your USB HID mouse (or ADB mouse handled by the input layer) to be accessible as char devices 13:32+ - /dev/input/mouseX and 13:63 - /dev/input/mice as an emulated ImPS/2 mouse. That way, all user space programs will be able to use your mouse. There are more. Please forgive a lenghy mail, but i thought it relavant not to snip this one considering the details. If one thinks it was too long, sorry..... -- Regards Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.zeelandnet.nl/pa3gcu/ - 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
