Re: Petition against kernel configuration options madness...

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Then perhaps the internal speaker could be moved...

Regards, Dean.

On 	Sun, 3 Nov 2002 20:07:05 +0100 	Vojtech Pavlik <[e-mail]> wrote:

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From:	Vojtech Pavlik <[e-mail]>
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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