Author Topic: PS/2 to USB keyboard adaptor?  (Read 2623 times)

jayeye

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PS/2 to USB keyboard adaptor?
« on: May 16, 2015, 08:03:39 am »
Before I set out to do this on my own... has anyone successfully used a digispark (original) as a ps2<>usb adaptor?

yes, I know I can get one on newegg... in fact, I have a ton of them. There is a catch, though: I need to remap the control key to be next to the A key (where God put it in the first place). I have yet to find an adaptor for which this works under linux, though; what happens is that after the control key has stayed pressed for the half-second (after which presumably the auto-repeat starts), keystrokes are no longer registering as Control.

In other words: if I press-and-hold the remapped control, hit x, wait a bit, and hit c, instead of getting control-x control-c, I get control-x c. This does not happen if I leave the key unmapped. It also doesn't happen on windows with the keys remapped in the registry, but I don't want to use windows :)

It's probably easier to just build my own ps2-usb adaptor than try to debug this!