Kudzu and automatic detection

[Bill Nottingham]

Per Bjornsson (perbj at stanford.edu) said: 
> 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? Pretty much no new user is going to
> have a serial mouse anyways, and if the serial mouse probing could be
> switchable by poking a parameter in /etc/sysconfig/kudzu the people who
> still have such devices can rather easily get them detected. Now, in th
> that file I can only find the parameter "SAFE" which the comment says
> disables serial mouse, monitor DDC and PS/2 port probing.

Hm, that doesn't actually disable PS/2 these days. Should probably
fix this.

Bill