Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 25 Sep 2003 16:12:26 +0200 | From | Vojtech Pavlik <> | Subject | Re: PS2 keyboard & mice mandatory again ? |
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On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 11:47:34PM +1000, Stuart Longland wrote:
> I presonally would like to be able to choose if I want to use the PS/2 > driver or not. Mainly because a couple of machines I have here, use the > old AT keyboard (DIN-5 connection, not PS/2 or USB), and have <128MB > RAM. For instance, how many 386 computers have you seen with at least > 32MB RAM & PS/2 or USB sockets? [1]
Surprisingly enough, there is no difference between DIN-5 (aka Extended AT) and MiniDIN-6 (aka PS/2) keyboards except for the connector shape.
So you'll need the driver even on your i386's. You can drop the mouse driver there, though.
> (And yes, I probably would be crazy enough to go put Linux 2.6 on to a > 386, I've considered installing Gentoo on one actually -- just to see > how long it takes :-D) > > Footnotes: > 1. I've only seen one exception to this, that is one old (also dead) > Olivetti 386 laptop which had PS/2 keyboard & mouse sockets.
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