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
