[ltp] mouse and keyboard in the ps2 port using a splitter?

[Jim Harvey]

Michael Asbridge wrote:
> I tried switching them round to mouse in the k port and keyboard in the 
> M port but then neither works,
> my splitter is a belkin compusa too. I am wondering if there is problem 
> with the keyboard which is quite
> an old ibm one... will have to try another newer one but don't think 
> thats really going to make a difference...
> you got such  a splitter working with linux bill? if so which 
> distribution and vmrf? Must be something I'm doing wrong somewhere...
> 
> I'm running mandrake 9.0
> 
> Bill Andrus wrote:
>>
>> I've picked up several brands of non-IBM laptop port splitters over the
>> years, and found that without exception, on an IBM Thinkpad, I had to 
>> swap
>> the keyboard and mouse assignments, plugging the external keyboard 
>> into the
>> mouse port and the external mouse into the keyboard port.  The one I'm
>> using right now is a Belkin from CompUSA, and that's how its connected.
>>
>> Bill Andrus
>> Email:  languru@us.ibm.com

For What It's Worth, I own a hacked Netpliance I-Opener.  I tried a purchased 
locally PS2 splitter and it didn't work.  Bought one from linux-hacker.net and 
it's instructions said to swap keyboard and mouse, that one works fine. 
Apparently some splitters are functionally different.  Some are intended to plug 
two mice in at the same time.
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  Jim Harvey - WB8NBS/9 - Naperville, Illinois - Linux on a Thinkpad 770Z