On Wed 02 Jan 2019 at 19:54:30 (-0500), Dan Ritter wrote: > rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > The Question: Will it be straightforward to convert the Wheezy machine > > (which > > has USB ports) to use a USB port instead of the PS/2 ports to connect the > > mouse and keyboard (via the KVM switch) -- is it as simple as shutting the > > computer down, changing the cables, and rebooting, or is it more involved. > > You shouldn't need to shut down the machine, actually. X11 has > had hot input switching since about that time period. > > > If it is more complicated, what would I have to do? > > Worst case scenario: edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf; find the stanza > about a ps2mouse and switch it to a usbmouse. > > There shouldn't be any difficulty with the keyboard at all.
I just plugged a USB keyboard into my ancient Pentium III which uses a PS/2 keyboard and mouse. I can happily type commands into a VC with alternate letters typed on each keyboard. X not running. Same thing holds for mice. (It's running stretch as of before Christmas because wheezy was unable to mount some of my more recently formatted filesystems.) Cheers, David.
