Re: Cursor speed

In article <1i7b0kh.1q3wnri1468io0N%dempson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
dempson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (David Empson) wrote:

I'm aware that some mice come with a USB adapter. I had assumed they
were actually dual-mode mice that supported either USB or PS/2 based on
the state of a pin on the connector. Was that assumption wrong? Is the
adapter actually able to support any PS/2 mouse, i.e. it contains a USB
peripheral and protocol converter?

There's two kinds of PS2-to-USB adapter.

The first kind is the connector reshaping one, like you're talking about.

The second kind (and the kind I'm talking about) is slightly larger, and
does work with true PS2 devices. Probably not all of them, but the ones
I've tried.

Here's an example (albeit a pricey one):
<http://www.amazon.com/Belkin-F5U119-E-PS-USB-Adapter/dp/B0000A2QBI>
.

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