Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2009 21:57:13 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: stuff and even more problems.... [ to mostly the hard core ] Message-ID: <20091108215713.aabc3e1f.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20091108024038.GA23704@thought.org> References: <20091108024038.GA23704@thought.org>
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On Sat, 7 Nov 2009 18:40:41 -0800, Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> wrote: > it was .LT. sixty bux > and next-to-worthless given my disability.[*] > [...] > [*] gotta type CTRL-ALT-Shift at just the right keyrate (+/- 0.000000000001s:) > to change ports. What happended to the "old" fahioned way of having a simple knob that you can turn to one of the 4 positions? Too mechanically? Not "modern" enough? Not prone enough to errors? I sill have such a switch here, but I'm lacking the cables; they are maybe triple as expensive as a new "modern" switch including cables which requires a race across the keyboard in order to switch the targets. Man, I sound sooo oooold... :-) Back on topic: With the use of an USB->PS/2 adaptor, you could be lucky; most USB keyboards function as intended in such a setting, but I've already found that not all of them do. Strangely, the older ones (such as IBM model M) do, but I had a "modern" Dell keyboard that didn't work with a converter as mentioned above, allthoug it should (and worked correct plugged in directly, and other keyboards workeed correct with the adaptor). Strange stuff, produced by "modern" IT manufacturers... You'll end up having to try it. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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