Hello all, long time no see :-) I've been lurking a lot but without having too much to add. Recently, though, I came across a strange problem.
I've a rather old machine built by myself. Nothing too fancy, it's just an old Intel dual core with 2 GiB RAM, working only with eCS 2.1 GA. When I say "rather old" I mean "It has a PS/2 keyboard port and mouse port".
I used to work on it with an USB mouse connected to the PS/2 port via an adaptor and it worked fairly well (it's still smoother than my last laptop with an i5 CPU and Windows 10, mind you).
In the last few days, though, strange things have happened:
1 - my old mouse stopped working its left button, so I tried to use an USB mouse. It worked the first time and then no more.
2 - I tried another old PS/2 mouse (but this could be not working) and no success.
3 - I bought a new (wired, not wireless) USB mouse and tried to connect it to all the USB ports, other than the PS/2 port with its adaptor, and nothing - no mouse movements.
4 - everytime I connect the mouse to the USB port, eCS beeps (it's the same beep that occurs when I connect an USB pendrive or other MSD).
5 - Amouse is installed and Amouse USB driver too. Amouse control panel seems to detect the mouse, but the pointer does not move and pushing any of the mouse buttons doesn't do anything.
Now I want to take some time to try and see if the eCS installer actually sees the mouse. The same I'll do with some other OS installer (say, some linux).
Maybe this is the right time to think about migrating to ArcaOS...
Some ideas, anyone?
Mentore