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Re: Displaying and controlling my PC from any TV


  • To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
  • Subject: Re: Displaying and controlling my PC from any TV
  • From: "Paul Gordon" <paul_gordon@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 14:41:38 BST
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This is actually quite common in laptops - all of them have some form of
built-in mouse device - either a "nipple" or a touchpad, and
nearly all of
them also have a PS2 port to use a "proper" mouse. It's almost
always
possible to have both pointing devices enabled at once, so either can be
used...

Paul G.


>
>Now there's a surprise, I would have expected a PC (especially windows)
not
>to like having two devices of the same type connected via 2 different
>adaptors, because they both use different drivers, neither of which I
would
>expect to know about the other, I would have expected only one of them
to
>work.
>
>But there you go, expect the unexpected. :-)
>
>At 12:47 31/07/00 +0100, you wrote:
> >I have had PS2 and USB mouse connected to a single computer at the
same
> >time, no problem. Haven't tried two keyboards tho.
> >
> >Regards
> >
> >Graham
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Paul Gordon" <paul_gordon@xxxxxxx>
> >To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
> >Sent: Monday, July 31, 2000 1:09 PM
> >Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Displaying and controlling my PC from any TV
> >
>
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