Re: Petition against kernel configuration options madness...

Vojtech Pavlik
2002-11-03T19:00:51Z

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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Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs