Mouse+Keyboard Port, Using Both?

[Joe[x86]]

Hey, on this Compaq (not the one refered to in the other thread, this is a Prolinea 5100), I've got a single PS2 port, marked KBD/Mouse (ok, no, its got the cool little drawings, but you catch my drift). I've got a cable that is a little hookup thing, with two PS2 females and a PS2 male, so I can hook two keyboards up at once. Would this work for a keyboard and mouse, or would their input interfere with eachother?

[MyndFyre]

Sounds like it's designed for keyboard and mouse, the way you're describing it.

[Joe[x86]]

The mouse got its butt ondetected. Ouch!

[Stealth]

Your solution would probably work. However, it's easier to grab a USB keyboard (or mouse) instead -- decent mice tend to be USB with USB-PS/2 converters included anyways.

[Joe[x86]]

Yeah, I use a USB mouse on JoeMomma. This one doesn't have USB though. Its one of those second-hand testing boxes I get biweekly.

[iago]

We had several servers like that.  There is a little adapter to plug a keyboard/mouse into the same port. 

                /--[] kb
kb + mouse []---
                \--[] mouse

[MyndFyre]

Haha, get a serial mouse?

[quasi-modo]

Wooooow people are still using those things? (referring to prolinea 5100)