Gustin Johnson wrote: > It shouldn't matter if you are using USB devices as the i8042 is for PS2 > devices. I am not sure what is "normal", but for me, pretty much all my > keyboards and mice are USB these days.
Because of the incompatibilities with Linux now most of my equipment is new, but e.g. keyboard and mouse are still from bulk rubbish providing PS2. It's not only because I've got less money, but still because I don't like to throw away things that are still fine. Sad to say that Microsoft is more efficient concerning to oldish hardware and pro audio. Back to the topic, one of the keyboards I've got needs an adopter for less than 1,- EUR to fit to PS2, the connector even isn't PS2 and this keyboard is fine, resp. my keyboards are much better than all those low-cost USB keyboards, I know that there are USB keyboards for less money. I've got a printer, not connected at the moment, but still with a parallel port and the printer is still fine and I'll point out, the printer is fine with Linux. More and more it looks like I'm a dinosaur. Before removing modules someone should keep in sight that he maybe will do projects with other people and that they maybe will connect their equipments and than there might be the need to have some oldish modules. Maybe Michael has got USB, but because he didn't know about i8042 he should be careful when removing modules. > I regularly add misbehaving modules to the blacklist (usually wifi > devices) as well as annoying modules (eg. pcspkr). Modern APICs can > usually handle 24 hardware lines so it is probably not worth bothering > about. Buggy BIOSs are of greater concern to me but that is another > story. I also don't use wifi, even my telephones are wired. Different hardware can share the same interrupts with Linux. Because I'm an old computer freak, that didn't know the way modern Computers and Linux handles IRQs, I read yesterday about it. If something has an interrupt, but isn't in use, the CPU won't take care of it. Maybe I misunderstood something. For someone like you, knowing what he is doing, removing unneeded modules might be the better way, for someone who doesn't know about things like i8042 it might be dangerous. Before removing anything I recommend to take a look at http://www.google.com/linux. IMO to tweak that way is the wrong approach. Thinking about how to change LADSPA, resp. to take a look why VST needs less resources, is more interesting than removing modules that have no impact on the performance and that someday might be needed. Cheers, Ralf
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