From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 026391384B4 for ; Mon, 30 Nov 2015 08:51:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A387921C058; Mon, 30 Nov 2015 08:51:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from gw2.antarean.org (gw2.antarean.org [141.105.125.208]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 850AFE088B for ; Mon, 30 Nov 2015 08:51:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gw2.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37A631216FD for ; Mon, 30 Nov 2015 08:48:58 +0000 () X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at antarean.org Received: from gw2.antarean.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (gw2.antarean.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id A5X_Cig8bzw8 for ; Mon, 30 Nov 2015 08:48:56 +0000 (%Z) Received: from data.antarean.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gw2.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A92651212C8 for ; Mon, 30 Nov 2015 08:48:56 +0000 () Received: from eve.localnet (eve.adm.antarean.org [10.55.16.19]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by data.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 09E7F4C for ; Mon, 30 Nov 2015 09:50:30 +0100 (CET) From: "J. Roeleveld" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] wireless USB mouse via PS/2 adapter and KVM switch Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2015 09:50:27 +0100 Message-ID: <17672696.oZT2rBpBFS@eve> User-Agent: KMail/4.14.8 (Linux/4.0.5-gentoo; KDE/4.14.8; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <565A5B1F.2060906@sys-concept.com> References: <565A5B1F.2060906@sys-concept.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Archives-Salt: 5d9a634f-c2d6-4137-8c66-54e26d7f78d5 X-Archives-Hash: 16bdb26537b9a170b939325f5abb4752 On Saturday 28 November 2015 18:55:43 thelma@sys-concept.com wrote: > I have a KVM witch IOGEAR that using old type PS/2 ports > I've tried to connect to it Wireless USB Mouse via USB-to-PS/2 adapter. > > It doesn't work :-/ And your question is? :) Anyway, about the issue you are seeing, this is, unfortunately, as expected. When USB-mice first appeared, most computers still only had PS/2 plugs. (Some even still had the older thicker round plugs) In order to make the new USB mice to work, the USB/PS/2 adapters appeared. They worked because the mouse recognized the adapter and changed the signal accordingly. The adapters don't have any fancy circuitry to translate between USB and PS/2. -- Joost