[indiana-discuss] PS2 keyboard, mouse through USB Y connector

[Andrew Gabriel]

S Q wrote:
> I have a PS2 keyboard & mouse connected through a USB Y connector.
> It seems to work through GRUB and the login screen. But once I login, neither the keyboard nor the mouse responds. USB only keyboard mouses work. How can I fix this?
>
> I have Indiana, b101. Not sure if this problem is Indiana specific, I haven't tried this setup before.
>
> Do I have to add something to xorg.conf? What?

I recall something slightly similar a while back, probably too long back 
for me to reliably recall exactly what the situation was.

I think the issue was that the BIOS was configured to emulate legacy 
PS/2 mouse/keyboard, which it did some way into the system booting, but 
at some point that stops working and the system basically loses its 
emulated legacy PS/2 mouse/keyboard at that point. Turning off that 
emulation in the BIOS made Solaris see the USB mouse/keyboard right from 
the start, and then it worked fine. Just a guess from the dim and 
distant past though.

-- 
Andrew