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Re: r18868 - in trunk/packages/ddetect: . debian



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On Wednesday 04 August 2004 22:10, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 03:08:54PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> > Why should d-i care about the mouse? Shouldn't you be patching X's
> > configuration program?
>
> Well, this is the modules which will be added to the /etc/modules. I
> understand that it may well be possible that the X installation stuff, but
> i suppose the mouse should be usefull even for gpm or other non-X stuff,
> and having no mouse driver module loaded after the reboot is not a nice
> thing.
>
> So, if this is not the right place for registering this module for future
> use, what is ? discover, which has trouble handling more than one module
> per pci id ? hotplug ? The X configuration stuff ? i have some doubt about
> Branden accepting this kind of stuff though, unless there is a generic
> module loading mechanism for X, and this doesn't solve the case of non-X
> mouse users.

Could it be this is the same problem as #255744?
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