No keyboard after ports update, 2x moused_enable="YES" culprit
Daniel Staal
DStaal at usa.net
Mon May 16 03:25:42 UTC 2011
--As of May 15, 2011 8:03:29 PM -0700, perryh at pluto.rain.com is alleged to
have said:
> The AT and PS/2 keyboard interfaces are electrically identical --
> only the physical connector is different. (I have seen, and used,
> adapters to connect either type of keyboard to the other type of
> system. Such adapters have no active components, just the two
> connectors wired together.)
--As for the rest, it is mine.
The physical connector is all that actually needs to be different: Hot-swap
interfaces make a point of connecting ground before power, usually be
longer ground pins. Although I don't think it matters in this case.
I could check, but I'd have to unplug my keyboard from the computer I'm on.
;)
Daniel T. Staal
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