11.10 no longer supports PS/2 keyboards?

[Ernest Doub]

On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 9:17 AM, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:

> On 15 October 2011 17:13, Bill Stanley <bstanle at wowway.com> wrote:
> >>> I know they want to drop the old style of desktop, but dropping support
> >>> for
> >>> PS/2 keyboards is just whack!
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> > Surely your computer has USB ports?  Just buy an USB mouse.
>
> How will a USB mouse help his PS/2 keyboard problem?
>
> By the way I can also confirm that PS/2 keyboard works ok for me on 11.10
>
> Colin
>
>
> If you want to
> > keep your PS/2 mouse, perhaps there might be a hardware way around the
> > problem.  When I bought a replacement mouse for an older computer, it
> came
> > with an adapter where you could can a PS/2 style mouse to an USB port.  I
> > checked on Google and these adapters are quite inexpensive.
>
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Has a different keyboard been tried?
Perhaps the problem is a failure internal to the keyboard and not the
upgrade.
Then again it might be a motherboard problem.
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