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Re: Switching from PS/2 keyboard and mouse connection to (one) USB connection?

From	Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Switching from PS/2 keyboard and mouse connection to (one) USB connection?
Date	2019-01-03 08:30 +0100
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	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:
> > rhkramer@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

Thread

Switching from PS/2 keyboard and mouse connection to (one) USB connection? rhkramer@gmail.com - 2019-01-03 01:50 +0100
  Re: Switching from PS/2 keyboard and mouse connection to (one) USB  connection? Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2019-01-03 02:00 +0100
    Re: Switching from PS/2 keyboard and mouse connection to (one) USB  connection? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-01-03 04:40 +0100
      Re: Switching from PS/2 keyboard and mouse connection to (one) USB connection? rhkramer@gmail.com - 2019-01-03 15:20 +0100
    Re: Switching from PS/2 keyboard and mouse connection to (one) USB  connection? Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2019-01-03 05:20 +0100
      Re: Switching from PS/2 keyboard and mouse connection to (one) USB  connection? Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2019-01-03 08:30 +0100
        Re: Switching from PS/2 keyboard and mouse connection to (one) USB connection? rhkramer@gmail.com - 2019-01-03 15:30 +0100
    Re: Switching from PS/2 keyboard and mouse connection to (one) USB  connection? Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2019-01-03 21:20 +0100
  Re: Switching from PS/2 keyboard and mouse connection to (one) USB  connection? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2019-01-03 07:20 +0100

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