11.10 no longer supports PS/2 keyboards?

[Colin Law]

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.