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Re: ps/2 mouse(quick question)



On Tue 27 Apr 1999, Michael Stroucken wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, Loic Prylli wrote:
> 
> > Same as on intel /dev/psaux, and you may need to load the psaux module
> > before (for 2.0 kernel, for 2.2, it needs to be compiled in).
> 
> 	Any reason why the ps2 driver was unmodularised in 2.2?

As the ps/2 mouse port is so closely integrated with the keyboard port,
the two have finally been combined to form a single "cleaner" driver.
As it's quite difficult to boot without the keyboard driver, it has to
be compiled into the kernel.


Paul Slootman
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