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Re: Working (but not fully understood (was: Re: Activate the mouse after a reboot which didn't activate the mouse?)



On Friday, April 24, 2020 07:28:38 PM rhkramer@gmail.com wrote:
> Intentionally top posting.
> 
> Well, the mouse is working now.  Since the last time I wrote, I did try
> rebooting, and rebooting did not make the mouse work, so I tried varioius
> things, like unplugging the mouse cable from the kvm and plugging in a
> spare mouse (which I'm pretty sure was good, but didn't seem to help).

Oh, just to be clear, after each of those changes, I reboooted. 

> Finally, I tried plugging only one of the two cables from the KVM for the
> mouse and keyboard into the Jessie computer (one of the cables has a PS/2
> plug and I had had that plugged into the only PS/2 port on this computer
> (I thought (and still think) it is for the keyboard), and the other has a
> USB plug.
> 
> At this point, both the keyboard and mouse are working via that one USB
> cable.
> 
> What I don't understand is how / why the system booted up properly when I
> first installed the KVM (a few months ago).
> 
> But, it is working now, so I'll keep my fingers crossed.
> 
> Nothing new below this line:


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