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On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 5:06 PM, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Monday 12 July 2010 22:59:59 Paul Hartman wrote: |
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>> In my experience, the small PS/2 to USB mouse adapters like that do |
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>> not contain a controller chip and only work on USB-compatible PS/2 |
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>> mice. Those mice typically came with a USB adapter in the first place, |
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>> so if yours didn't it could be that you're fighting a losing battle. |
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> This is a vanilla PS/2 IBM rather old mouse (protocol ImPS/2). I've grown |
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> font of it over the years ... Oh dear! how sad can a geek get! O_O |
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I'm still using an old PS/2-style keyboard with said USB adapter as |
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well. It used to be white... now it's a dirty yellowish color. You can |
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have my keyboard when you pry it from my cold dead hands... |
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>> The larger "Y"-shaped keyboard/mouse-to-USB adapters usually support |
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>> non-USB-compatible PS/2 mice, though. I have one like this and it |
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>> works for me: |
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>> http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.9291 |
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> Does this Y-shaped dongle contain any electronics in it? Otherwise it |
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> wouldn't be any different to a single connector. |
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AFAIK it does, at least the one I have seems to work with "dumb" mice |
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where the smaller connectors did not. I didn't buy mine from the site |
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I linked to, but mine looks identical and they're probably all made in |
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the same factory anyway. |
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