From: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
To: Stuart Longland <stuartl@longlandclan.hopto.org>
Cc: Nicolas Mailhot <Nicolas.Mailhot@laposte.net>,
Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PS2 keyboard & mice mandatory again ?
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 16:12:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030925141226.GA25505@ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F72F1F6.1040007@longlandclan.hopto.org>
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.
--
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs, SuSE CR
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-25 14:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-24 18:32 PS2 keyboard & mice mandatory again ? Nicolas Mailhot
2003-09-25 7:46 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2003-09-25 8:09 ` Nicolas Mailhot
2003-09-25 11:15 ` Adrian Bunk
2003-09-25 11:36 ` Ron Verhees
2003-09-25 12:11 ` Nicolas Mailhot
2003-09-25 13:47 ` Stuart Longland
2003-09-25 14:12 ` Vojtech Pavlik [this message]
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2003-09-25 1:07 Frédéric L. W. Meunier
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