As Susan G. Kleinmann said:
>
> My experience is that there are a couple of good hardware reasons for
> getting serial mice instead of PS/2 mice:
>
> -- removing the PS/2 mouse frees up an IRQ.
Perhaps I am wrong, but a serial mouse also requires an IRQ... and a serial
port! With my PS/2 mouse I
on the other hand, most laptops with builtin mouse or trackball or
force stick or glidepoint seem to use the PS/2 interface... which is
an argument (polite request :-) for having it in the default kernel.
Can't free up the IRQ in that case either...
> On Thu, 8 Aug 1996, Mike Taylor wrote:
> Lots of people seem to have problems getting PS2 mice up. My Gateway +
> PS2 worked fine under Slackware 3.0, but I still can't get it to work
> under Debian. I have tried all the stuff that you tried plus
> compiling a custom kernel (with the Debian sou
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