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Date:      Tue, 14 May 1996 16:48:15 -0600
From:      Nate Williams <nate@sri.MT.net>
To:        "Marty Leisner" <leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com>
Cc:        "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>, freebsd-questions@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: X W32p and PS/2 woes 
Message-ID:  <199605142248.QAA17454@rocky.sri.MT.net>
In-Reply-To: <9605142122.AA26036@gnu.mc.xerox.com>
References:  <199605131512.RAA27454@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> <9605142122.AA26036@gnu.mc.xerox.com>

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> About PS/2, I've seen maybe 20-30 different PC's in the the last
> 2 years (at work and home).
> 
> They all have PS/2 mice...wouldn't is be reasonable to support
> PS/2 in the generic kernel (so I don't have to start building 
> right after install?)

In -current, the PS/2 mouse driver is compiled in but disabled.  The
reason it's not enabled by default is that it tends to hang some
machines during the probe, and since it's not necessary it's better to
have it gone than have it mess the system up.

However, since it's now trivial to enable the driver with the '-c'
option at the boot prompt and Bruce added the 'disable' keyword I
figured it was safe to add to the GENERIC kernel.

The short answer is that it's now in the GENERIC kernel. :)


Nate



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