Kudzu and automatic detection

[Charles Lopes]

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:
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>>>To really speed things up, all you have to declare is that all serial
>>>mice must be manually configured... 
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>>So maybe it's actually time to at least default to ignoring certain
>>types of legacy hardware by default? 
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>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 :)
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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.