From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 8 20:57:16 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96A95106568B for ; Sun, 8 Nov 2009 20:57:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from mx01.qsc.de (mx01.qsc.de [213.148.129.14]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56F2C8FC0A for ; Sun, 8 Nov 2009 20:57:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from r55.edvax.de (port-92-195-97-236.dynamic.qsc.de [92.195.97.236]) by mx01.qsc.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B9203D56F; Sun, 8 Nov 2009 21:57:14 +0100 (CET) Received: from r55.edvax.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by r55.edvax.de (8.14.2/8.14.2) with SMTP id nA8KvDR2001665; Sun, 8 Nov 2009 21:57:14 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2009 21:57:13 +0100 From: Polytropon To: Gary Kline Message-Id: <20091108215713.aabc3e1f.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20091108024038.GA23704@thought.org> References: <20091108024038.GA23704@thought.org> Organization: EDVAX X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.7 (GTK+ 2.12.1; i386-portbld-freebsd7.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: stuff and even more problems.... [ to mostly the hard core ] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Polytropon List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:57:16 -0000 On Sat, 7 Nov 2009 18:40:41 -0800, Gary Kline 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, ...