[PLUG] Mouse connection question [FIXED]

[Rich Shepard]

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