Bug with keyboard and nforce4(easy to fix?)

[mikesown]

Prior to getting my new 3200+ and nforce motherboard, I had a 1.8ghz Pentium 4 with an MSI 845e motherboard. I was using a usb mouse and ps/2 keyboard in OSX with no problem at all. I swap out my motherboard, and boom, ps/2 keyboard doesn't work anymore... I search around the wiki here and found a quick fix solution- plug an old ps/2 mouse in. It worked. However, this is far from a permenant fix. It seems like it would be really easy to fix.... Would anyone want to help in developing a patch for this annoyint problem?

[wiebeest]

Prior to getting my new 3200+ and nforce motherboard, I had a 1.8ghz Pentium 4 with an MSI 845e motherboard. I was using a usb mouse and ps/2 keyboard in OSX with no problem at all. I swap out my motherboard, and boom, ps/2 keyboard doesn't work anymore... I search around the wiki here and found a quick fix solution- plug an old ps/2 mouse in. It worked. However, this is far from a permenant fix. It seems like it would be really easy to fix.... Would anyone want to help in developing a patch for this annoyint problem?

Why not use a usb --> ps/2 adapter?

 

Used this sollution when I had issues with my Gigabyte K8NF-9 (also Nforce4 mobo).

It didn't recognise my ps/2 keyboard in combination with my USB mouse.

But when using the usb mouse (through adapter) in ps/2 port, the problem was solved.

Recently I switched from ps/2 to usb keyboard (M$ comfort curve keyboard keyboard with notebook like keys), so now both mouse and keyboard can be used in usb mode without issues.

And additionally mouse seems more responsive now under os X through VMWare.