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 :)
Absolutely! I can't imagine that would upset anyone, and means you shouldn't get through the boot process without some type of pointing device operational.
If kudzu/whatever is run interactively then you could clearly show a "skip serial mouse detection if usb/ps2 mouse found first" checkbox [1] [2] which can be disabled by the user if necessary. It would be a shame to drop automagic configuration for these things completely.
[1] Or just detect everything anyway - time taken isn't so important in that case - though that could be confusing to users.
[2] In fact a more general "skip legacy hardware" option might be more appropriate.
PS: Anyone want a two-button serial mouse that's been sitting in a box with other junk for several years? :) I think I vaguely recall using it once. Really not worth ebaying so if you're in London or are happy to pay for postage...
-- Stuart
