Date: Mon, 4 May 1998 14:57:11 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Dan Benjamin <dpb@yeti.hqs.crc.com>, dwilde1@ibm.net, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Demo CDs (was: blessing) Message-ID: <19980504145711.M4777@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <001401bd7375$1741d480$6fd392c0@moses.hqs.crc.com>; from Dan Benjamin on Wed, Apr 29, 1998 at 09:45:37AM -0400 References: <001401bd7375$1741d480$6fd392c0@moses.hqs.crc.com>
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On Wed, 29 April 1998 at 9:45:37 -0400, Dan Benjamin wrote:
>> This thing needs more flesh. Any ideas? What problems do you see?
>> About the biggest one I see so far is how to find the mouse. It would
>> be nice to modify startx to check for the mouse if no valid pointer
>> section is found in the XF86Config file ("no mouse found: please move
>> your mouse around until I say \"stop\""). Anybody know how to
>> recognize a mouse?
>
> This is a good point - is it safe enough to assume that most people have com
> 1 free?
No.
> Even on systems where there is a ps2 style mouse, com 1 is usually
> unused. We could specify that they need to use a serial mouse on
> com1 to get things started. It's not too much to ask IMHO.
You mean to ask them to go out and buy another mouse? I'd say that's
definitely too much to ask. It should be straightforward enough to
find the mouse (first, you ask the user...)
> -Dan B.
> dan@bsdweek.com
BSD Week? What's that?
Greg
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