Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote:
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! :)
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.
