Kudzu and automatic detection

[Charles Lopes]

Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote:

>tir, 07.12.2004 kl. 13.19 skrev Charles Lopes:
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>>Arjan van de Ven wrote:
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>>>On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 13:51 -0800, Per Bjornsson wrote:
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>>>>On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 15:32 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
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>>>>>To really speed things up, all you have to declare is that all serial
>>>>>mice must be manually configured... 
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>>>>So maybe it's actually time to at least default to ignoring certain
>>>>types of legacy hardware by default? 
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>>>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 :)
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>>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.
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>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...
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>Yes i know... I *should* replace the mouse...
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>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! :)
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I see your point. So if a USB or PS/2 mouse is found, serial probing 
should be skipped because in the few cases where one has both a PS/2 and 
a serial mouse, X will be useable with just one mouse and one can always 
manually configure the serial mouse with system-config-mouse. The 
approach sounds quite safe now.