On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 2:31 PM, Daniel Cliff <daniel.cliff.em...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 2:18 PM, Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59...@care2.com> wrote: > >> Daniel Cliff wrote: > <snip> >>> I use a PS/2 keyboard and a USB mouse that I connect to the laptop >>> thru a (generic) USB to PS/2 adaptor. The mouse works, but the >>> keyboard doesn't. I have no idea where I can start looking. My guess >>> is that the installation didn't install PS/2 support, but I've been >>> searching the net and reading the documentation, but can't figure how >>> to deal with that. I will appreciate help from more advanced users. >> >> <snip> >> >> What does this say: >> >> cat /proc/bus/input/devices
> This is what is _added_ to that file after plugging the adaptor with > mouse and keyboard: > > I: Bus=0003 Vendor=13ba Product=0017 Version=0110 > N: Name="Generic USB K/B" > P: Phys=usb-0000:00:1d.0-1/input0 > S: Sysfs=/class/input/input7 > U: Uniq= > H: Handlers=kbd event7 > B: EV=120013 > B: KEY=10000 7 ff9f207a c14057ff febeffdf ffefffff ffffffff fffffffe > B: MSC=10 > B: LED=1f I did this experiment: When I cat /dev/input/event8, some funny-looking characters are displayed _only_ when I move the mouse, which makes sense, since the mouse works fine, but when I cat /dev/input/event7, a handful of funny-looking characters are displayed per second or so, regardless of what I press on the keyboard (the caps lock led doesn't even turn on anyway). Is there a module to load PS/2 support into the kernel? I would like to try that, but haven't found how to. Any help will be greatly appreciated. D. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
