Hi. On Wed, Jan 02, 2019 at 11:14:06PM -0500, Michael Stone wrote: > On Wed, Jan 02, 2019 at 07:54:30PM -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. > > Old machines would sometimes freeze if you yanked the PS/2 keyboard.
And you can fry PS/2 port permanently by hotplugging. Did it twice personally. Reco
