Date: Thu, 18 Jun 1998 15:06:36 +0200 (CEST) From: Søren Schmidt <sos@FreeBSD.ORG> To: rhh@ct.picker.com (Randall Hopper) Cc: sos@FreeBSD.ORG, nirva@ishiboo.com, yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp, hasty@rah.star-gate.com, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X-10 Mouse Remote patch Message-ID: <199806181306.PAA22009@sos.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <19980618083321.B5383@ct.picker.com> from Randall Hopper at "Jun 18, 98 08:33:21 am"
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In reply to Randall Hopper who wrote:
> Sren Schmidt:
> |In reply to Randall Hopper who wrote:
> |> I have noticed that the spurious events seem to only be mouse button or
> |> motion events. So I plan to look for a cheap serial port ISA board to plug
> |> in and just give MouseRemote its own serial port. I know that works fine
> |> as I ran that way originally. Then I won't care about the mouse event
> |> noise.
> |
> |This sounds like one of the most crappy PC hardware implementations
> |I've heard about, the mouse/keyboard interface is bad enough as
> |it is. I'm actually against putting this mess into moused/syscons.
>
> Not being an RF engineer, I can't speak to that. Could be that there's a
> lot of crap around 300Mhz in urban areas or that's emitted by household
> appliances -- I don't know. Or it could be just Danny's place and my apt.
> (I have a lot of electronics around the computer).
>
> So maybe a bad choice of frequency by X-10, assuming they had much of a
> choice. Or bad filtering on the RF receiver. Beats me.
>
> The piece in moused doesn't have anything to do with this RF
> interference/filtering issue -- no hacks in the code, so IMO there should
> be no problem with having the support in there.
I didn't mean RF problems or anything with the X-10 hardware, but having
it communicate TOGETHER with the mouse is a real bad idea, to put it
on the PS/2 mouse port is insane, that is the crappy enginnering I'm
talking about (I wouldn't even call it engineering)....
And it has NO business in moused whatsoever, its a hack and it doesn't
belong there. I'm sorry I havn't noticed this before, but its should be
ripped out ASAP, I would never have allowed it in there if I had
found out before.
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Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team
Even more code to hack -- will it ever end?
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