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SubjectRe: PS2 keyboard & mice mandatory again ?
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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Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs, SuSE CR
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