Unless there are two of those sockets or its a mutant version (laptops did this) where a Y-dongle was used to split the one socket. It should be nothing more than have the mouse plugged in and power it up. You can't, in general, hot-plug a PS2 mouse or keyboard. Many bios' will not activate them unless there is a device attached at boot up.<br>
<br>As far as the software side goes, it's a default, always on thing for every distro for the last 10 years. If it doesn't work for you, and the reboot didn't start it, the socket is either dead (hotplugging can kill them since they can have a 1.5A line and ground contact will pop a tiny fuse) or it uses that stupid splitter (I can't recall if the splitter was a 6 or 8 pin thing).<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/4/22 Courtney Thomas <<a href="mailto:courtneycthomas@bellsouth.net">courtneycthomas@bellsouth.net</a>>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Is the small round 6 pin plug [like the keyboard
plug] the correct socket ?</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">What's the minimum process, please ?</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Thank you,</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Courtney</font></div></div>
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