Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 3 Nov 2002 20:07:05 +0100 | From | Vojtech Pavlik <> | Subject | Re: Petition against kernel configuration options madness... |
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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.
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