11.10 no longer supports PS/2 keyboards?

[Avi Greenbury]

Doug wrote:

> In my previous reply, I said a keyboard  adapter could come from
> "Cables-R-Us"--I guess I was day-dreaming.  I was thinking of
> Cyberguys. The adapter is part number 1310835, and sells for $8.19.
> And yes, it works fine with Linux, as I'm now demonstrating.  I don't
> know if the cheaper purple plastic adapters work.

They should do. Keyboards are part of the USB spec, so there's no
excuse for a USB keyboard[0] to not work in Linux (or any other OS
with USB support), and PS/2 keyboards are essentially a subset of the
USB keyboard spec - there's no logic required on the line for a PS/2
keyboard to work in a USB socket, just a rearranging of the pins.

So, in the same way as you can expect any PS/2 keyboard to work in any
PS/2 supporting OS, you can expect a PS/2 keyboard with a USB adaptor
to work in any USB supporting OS. It's probably quite possible to
fix the problem in software rather than circumventing it in hardware,
though.

-- 
Avi

[0] well, the standard bit of it. 'media' buttons are probably a
different matter, but you have 12 F keys anyway.