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H/PC Sensei Posts: | 754 |
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| Is it possible to plug in a PS/2 or USB mouse Keyboard into a J720? would I need drivers?
Please if you know, share your wisdom  |
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| I heard about mouse a long time ago, but I've never seen it so maybe it's fake. And... Why would you need a keyboard? Jornada's keyboard rules  |
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Global Moderator H/PC Oracle Posts: | 12,669 |
Location: | Southern California | Status: | |
| What I recall hearing about was someone possibly getting a serial mouse to work with a connection to the 720's serial cable. (Would require a gender changer for the serial connection, of course. ) But I dunno what driver could have been used. 
EDIT: Found the thread:
http://www.hpcfactor.com/forums/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=5559&start=1Edited by CE Geek 2006-10-30 4:18 PM
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H/PC Sensei Posts: | 754 |
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| Thanks CE Geek,
Walkalone.. I want to get a VGA out and plug my handheld into a monitor and have a mouse and keyboard, so its like a real computer .
The CE operating system supports mouse and keyboards, I believe autonmatic but im not sure about Jornadas. Because some computers in 2000 were basicly computers with windows CE, And of course, They had mouse, keyboard imput. |
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| There is an official external serial keyboard available for the Jornada series. You can download the driver here:
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/genericSoftwareDownloadIndex?lc=en&cc=us&softwareitem=hh157en
You can find some info about the keyboard here:
http://www.to-tech.com/windowsce/jornada/keyboard/index.html
The part number is HP F1275A and it looks like there is one for sale on eBay for $90 shipped here:
http://cgi.ebay.com/HP-F1275A-HP-620-HP-720-Jornada-External-Keyboard_W0QQitemZ290037059506QQihZ019QQcategoryZ80152QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQcmdZViewItem
I know of no easy way to hook up any sort of external pointing device to the J720, due to its lack of USB and other expansion ports. I do believe that someone had gotten USB memory sticks to work with the 720 by using a rather expensive CF->USB 1.1 adapter, but have no clue if there is a USB HID type driver in the 720 rom. Even if there was, the use of such a card would preclude you simultaneously using a VGA out card as well.
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H/PC Sensei Posts: | 754 |
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Thanks Rocketman |
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H/PC Oracle Posts: | 16,175 |
Location: | Budapest, Hungary | Status: | |
| Quote Rocketman - 2006-10-30 11:39 PM
I know of no easy way to hook up any sort of external pointing device to the J720, due to its lack of USB and other expansion ports. I do believe that someone had gotten USB memory sticks to work with the 720 by using a rather expensive CF->USB 1.1 adapter, but have no clue if there is a USB HID type driver in the 720 rom. Even if there was, the use of such a card would preclude you simultaneously using a VGA out card as well.
yes, that cf usb driver will provide usb hid drivers too. (the 720 rom obviously has nothing like that ) |
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H/PC Elder Posts: | 1,953 |
Location: | BC, Canada | Status: | |
| if you dont want to use the official serial external keyboard... there's always the old school infrared keyboards  Not sure if those drivers are compatible with HPC though.
There are also bluetooth keyboard and mouse for PPCs, but again I have no idea if their drivers will work with a bluetooth card in the Jornada. |
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Factorite (Elite) Posts: | 121 |
Location: | Poland | Status: | |
| I have been successfully using a serial mouse with my J720. It works kinda slow but it can be pretty useful. You need a serial cable (I've got a home made one ), serial mouse driver called Mouser and a mouse  Driver is put in the tray and it will start working when you connect a mouse.  (mouser.jpg)Attachments ----------------  mouser.jpg (31KB - 3 downloads) |
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Factorite (Elite) Posts: | 121 |
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| I wonder if there is a way to connect a keyboard via serial cable I use to connect a mouse. Any ideas what changes to make with the plug?
Edited by Pokey 2006-11-01 2:20 AM
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Factorite (Junior) Posts: | 45 |
Location: | Lochem, the netherlands | Status: | |
| if i plug my mouse in, and start mouser my handheld crashes.. what am i doing wrong.. please help |
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H/PC Philosopher Posts: | 297 |
Location: | Chile | Status: | |
| supervaags, that's odd.. what kind of hardware are you using? |
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H/PC Sensei Posts: | 754 |
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| Quote Pokey - 2006-11-01 2:16 AM
I have been successfully using a serial mouse with my J720. It works kinda slow but it can be pretty useful. You need a serial cable (I've got a home made one ), serial mouse driver called Mouser and a mouse Driver is put in the tray and it will start working when you connect a mouse.
OOooo..I really like your startbar theme. Is it wisbar? where'd you get it?
Thanks,
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H/PC Oracle Posts: | 16,175 |
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| Quote macmee - 2006-11-01 11:58 PM
OOooo..I really like your startbar theme. Is it wisbar? where'd you get it?
Thanks,
- David
i think he uses one of geared2003's theme packs, it is in the themes section on this site (under shell icon mods )
real nice.
i think the vista package may not be there yet, but he uploaded it somewhere and linked to it in a forum thread (search for vista or for his posts or something ) |
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H/PC Sensei Posts: | 754 |
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| Wow, As much as I like windows 2000, and the theme-
This new XP Theme is great, THANKS! |
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