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Subject: Re: syscons by default?
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On Wed, 3 Dec 2003, Kris Kennaway wrote:

> It looks like syscons support is not enabled in GENERIC by default.
> Is there some lingering reason why this should be true?  If we enable
> it by default then e.g. system console installs should work for
> 5.2-RELEASE, and people can use XFree86 out of the box.
Does it work on blade 100? And support ati mach and usb keyboard/mouse?