Subject: Re: ps2 mouse in GENERIC kernel.
To: None <rvb@sicily.odyssey.cs.cmu.edu>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-i386
Date: 07/27/1998 11:00:03
On 27 Jul 1998 13:03:48 -0400
rvb@sicily.odyssey.cs.cmu.edu wrote:
> I would like to reenable pms support for GENERIC (perhaps in time for
> this new snapshot) because:
> 1. It is believed to work now.
> 2. If the mouse has some problems, they need to be fixed since
> this mouse is so common.
> 3. A generic kernel gets installed as part of sysinst and it
> is silly to install X and not full mouse support. (You can
> not use X w/o a mouse.
I think this is OK, yes.
Can we make sure the wscons ps/2 driver is safe, too? Eventually, we're
going to be switching to that completely.
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