[PLUG] Rescan for PS2 Mouse?

[King Beowulf]

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