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Subject:    Re: [DNG] loss of keyboard input
From:       John Morris via Dng <dng () lists ! dyne ! org>
Date:       2022-12-16 0:40:14
Message-ID: 4a818beb36bd8c931781d087aa15ab0205013c5a.camel () beau ! org
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On Wed, 2022-12-14 at 11:43 -0500, Haines Brown wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 14, 2022 at 11:06:21AM -0500, tempforever wrote:
> > Please elaborate on what you have tried.  Initially, you had a PS/2
> > keyboard plugged into USB-adapter, and that combination went bad
> > somehow.  Then you tried "A replacement keyboard and adapter."  I'm
> > confused if you mean that you tried another PS/2 keyboard + USB
> > adapter
> > combination, or have you tried an actual USB keyboard?  If you've
> > not
> > tried a USB keyboard yet, do that next, it would be much cheaper
> > than a
> > motherboard!  Also, you tried a different USB port, but is that port
> > on
> > the same root hub?  If you haven't yet, try a known-good port (the
> > one
> > the working mouse is in?).  I'm guessing this newer hardware doesn't
> > have a PS/2 port?  They are getting more and more rare, but they can
> > still be found.
> 
> Sorry not to have been clearer. I'm usuing PS2 keyboards (IBM M5 
> keyboards is all I have). My new box lacks a PS2 port and so I had to 
> get av PS2-USB adapter. It worked. It has been woking for for 
> about half a year.
> 

The IBM Model M is a wonder but it is starting to have problems with new
systems.  See this page for a possible solution:

https://ardent-tool.com/keyboard/Model_M_Mods.html



> However, this morhing I found I lacked keyboard input. When I pulled 
> the keyboard and apdapter the adapter fell apart. I tried 
> another PS2-USB adapter, but a different brand from the one that fell 
> apart, and it did't work. 
> 
> Someone suggested a possible adappter-keyboard incompatibility, and
> so 
> I tried the same brand adaptaer as my original one. This works, but 
> only in a USB port other than the one I was orignally using. So I'm 
> back in business, but perhaps with a non-functioning USB port.
> 


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