Messages in this thread Patches in this message | | | Date | Sun, 3 Nov 2002 22:58:33 +0100 | From | Andries Brouwer <> | Subject | Re: Petition against kernel configuration options madness... |
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On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 08:07:05PM +0100, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> > 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.
Last month or so I suggested adding a hint for Appletalk, and I see that it is there now:
config LLC tristate "ANSI/IEEE 802.2 Data link layer protocol (IPX, Appletalk)"
Such parenthetical remarks will no doubt help a little. You might try
--- Kconfig~ Thu Oct 31 14:15:06 2002 +++ Kconfig Sun Nov 3 22:51:45 2002 @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ menu "Input device support" config INPUT - tristate + tristate "Input devices (needed for mouse, keyboard, ...)" default y ---help--- Say Y here if you have any input device (mouse, keyboard, tablet, and
--- Kconfig~ Thu Oct 31 14:15:06 2002 +++ Kconfig Sun Nov 3 22:54:28 2002 @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ # Input core configuration # config SERIO - tristate "Serial i/o support" + tristate "Serial i/o support (needed for keyboard and mouse)" ---help--- Say Yes here if you have any input device that uses serial I/O to communicate with the system. This includes the (and maybe also sth under keyboard, to tell people that what they have is called an AT keyboard).
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