Kudzu and automatic detection

[Kyrre Ness Sjobak]

tir, 07.12.2004 kl. 13.19 skrev Charles Lopes:
> Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> 
> >On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 13:51 -0800, Per Bjornsson wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 15:32 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> >>    
> >>
> >>>To really speed things up, all you have to declare is that all serial
> >>>mice must be manually configured... 
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>So maybe it's actually time to at least default to ignoring certain
> >>types of legacy hardware by default? 
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >or... if you find a ps.2 or usb mouse skip the serial probing.. the
> >chance of having BOTH a ps2 one and a serial one are pretty low after
> >all :)
> >  
> >
> Except if you happen to have both a mouse and a trackball. I have seen 
> quite a few workstations equiped with a PS2 mouse and a serial 
> trackball. It was quite a common setup for CAD stations just a couple of 
> years ago.

A pc i administer has that setup. It has a (fairly broken) ps/2-mouse,
and an old ps/2 trackball connected. I haven't removed the mouse since
most users just stare at you when you tell them that the huge box
sitting besides the computer is used for the tasks as a mouse...

Yes i know... I *should* replace the mouse...

Now i didn't have any problem with starting system-config-mouse and
configuring the thing. It was quite easy, could even be done from the
console! :)

Now i would scream i suddenly wasn't able to hotplug a (ps/2 or USB)
mouse into my laptop and instantly start using it. I hear a windows
admin i know rumbeling over that his box'en dont do that... Very funny
when you have a lot of morons thinking "steal the mouse" is the worlds
funnyest game... While he and his users has to bloody reboot (well, its
windows after all), all i and my users has to do is bend over and
replace the plug, and continue working. That kindof takes the fun out of
it...

Kyrre