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    SubjectRe: Petition against kernel configuration options madness...
    On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 12:52:48PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
    > Jos Hulzink wrote:
    >
    > >It took me about an hour to find out why my keyboard didn't work in 2.5.45.
    > >Well... after all it seemed that I need to enable 4 ! options inside the
    > >input configuration, just to get my default, nothing special PS/2 keyboard up
    > >and running. Oh, and I didn't even have my not so fancy boring default PS/2
    > >mouse configured then. Guys, being able to configure everything is nice, but
    > >with the 2.5 kernel, things are definitely getting out of control IMHO.
    > >
    > >
    >
    > This is potentially becoming a FAQ... I ran into this too, as did
    > several people in the office. People who compile custom kernels seem to
    > run into this when they first jump into 2.5.x. AT Keyboard support is
    > definitely buried :/
    >
    > Unfortunately I don't have any concrete suggestions for Vojtech (input
    > subsystem maintainer), just a request that it becomes easier and more
    > obvious how to configure the keyboard and mouse that is found on > 90%
    > of all Linux users computers [IMO]...

    Too bad you don't have any suggestions. I completely agree this should
    be simplified, while I wouldn't be happy to lose the possibility of not
    compiling AT keyboard support in.

    --
    Vojtech Pavlik
    SuSE Labs
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