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RE: [Xen-devel] RE: [PATCH] USB support

To: "Jeremy Katz" <katzj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] RE: [PATCH] USB support
From: "Dugger, Donald D" <donald.d.dugger@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 12:44:13 -0700
Cc: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Jeremy-

Which is why we still provide PS/2 mouse, either through USB or through
PS/2 port.  For the legacy OS's running under SDL this is sufficient.
Running a legacy OS under VNC, if you want a usable mouse, then yes,
there will be some manual configuration required.

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Don Dugger
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jeremy Katz [mailto:katzj@xxxxxxxxxx] 
>Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2006 12:03 PM
>To: Dugger, Donald D
>Cc: Pete Zaitcev; xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] RE: [PATCH] USB support
>
>On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 20:01 -0700, Dugger, Donald D wrote:
>> Uh, I forget why I didn't originally go with the Wacom, there was
>> probably a lot of code to deal with relative addressing that I didn't
>> want to wade through and the Summagraphics was simple and did exactly
>> what we needed.  The esotericness of the Summagraphics is academic,
>> there's default support for both `gpm' and `X' for it so the 
>presence or
>> absence of real hardware doesn't really matter.
>> 
>> Long term I think we should go with the USB tablet, it is 
>transparently
>> supported by Windows and it should be simple to support under Linux.
>
>Yes, but I expect there's not going to be a lot of "just works"
>behavior, especially for the legacy OS's that are so important for FV.
>Which then really hurts users as they have to configure stuff by hand.
>
>Jeremy
>

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