Re: Kudzu and automatic detection

[Charles Lopes <tjarls@xxxxxx>]

Arjan van de Ven wrote:

> 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:
> >    
> >
> > > 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.