From: arnold@skeeve.com
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] 9legacy usb kb/mouse?
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2019 02:52:06 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201912230952.xBN9q6Te014410@freefriends.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5183d608f6ed30c7f62938ad9b4e056e@hamnavoe.com>
Richard Miller <9fans@hamnavoe.com> wrote:
> > I happen to have a chance to test this on another machine, which
> > has ps/2 interface on board. Dell's has no ps/2 interface.
> >
> > The machine having ps/2 interface DOES boot with usb kb/mouse
> > without ps/2 kb/mouse attached.
>
> Some motherboards (I don't know about Dell) have a special setting
> to enable different mouse protocols at boot time. Look for
> something like "usb legacy support".
I have also seen this affect USB keyboards (on Linux). Enabling it helped.
HTH,
Arnold
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