[Stephen Powell] > I realize that PS/2 mice were not intended to be hot swapped, but > "stuff happens". The kernel 'psmouse' module, and the 'serio' layer that actually talks to the i8042, actually have much more thorough and robust support for PS/2 hotplugging than gpm ever did. The kernel even intelligently handles PS/2 multiplexing, as seen on many laptops where the trackpad shares the chip with an external port. (gpm treats that case as a single mouse, programmed for some protocol they have in common.) As gpm co-maintainer I will say that the gpm repeater seems to be entirely obsolete for all use cases. (Unless your kernel is pre-2.6, but Debian no longer supports that.) -- Peter Samuelson | org-tld!p12n!peter | http://p12n.org/
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