nanogui: Cleaning up the source trees
Subject:
Re: Cleaning up the source trees
From:
"Bradley D. LaRonde" ####@####.####
Date:
30 Sep 1999 19:58:33 -0000
Message-Id: <01c301bf0b7d$373522f0$b8119526@ltc.com>
----- Original Message -----
From: Greg Haerr ####@####.####
To: 'Alex Holden' ####@####.####
Cc: ####@####.####
Sent: Thursday, September 30, 1999 3:23 PM
Subject: RE: Cleaning up the source trees
> : Does it do PS/2 mice? It is pretty neat for very lightweight systems
with
> : serial mice only, but the GII based one is nicer when you want support
for
> : pretty much every kind of mouse under the sun with autodetection, at the
> : expense of an extra few KB of code...
>
> I don't think it does PS/2 mice. There's nothing wrong with
> more drivers. Make sure that it isn't OS-specific, if possible, since our
current
> serial drivers can be used on any hardware/software platform.
PS/2 goes though the PS/2 keyboard controller (on what IBM called the "aux"
port), so no, the serial mouse driver won't do that.
However, it comes almost for free with a PS/2 keyboard driver.
So... what we are talking about here is a PS/2 driver, not specifically a
keyboard or mouse driver.
Regards,
Brad
