Kudzu and automatic detection

[Hans de Goede]

Charles Lopes wrote:
> 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...    
>>>>>>         
>>>>>
>>>>> 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.
>>>   
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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...
>>
>> 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! :)
>>
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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.
> 

Please don't go this way, see my suggestion to solve this in a previous 
post, just detect the serial mouses async.

Regards,

Hans