From: "Rich Gauszka" 


"Mike N."  wrote in message
news:l2lps21iit2dbblkv627ll83sdkpe1h21u{at}4ax.com...
> On Fri, 9 Feb 2007 11:02:27 -0500, "Rich Gauszka"
>  wrote:
>
>>FWIW other people running Fedora seem to have a similar problem ( more at
>>the link )
>>
>>https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=223606
>>
>>Description of problem: PS2 mouse inoperative
>
>   THAT'S IT!!!   I was ready to do the Windows thing and rebuild from
> scratch to see where it blows up.
>
>   Ok, I'm finally convinced - the PS2 mouse is officially dead.   If they
> can kill the mouse and not figure it out for this long, that's the end of
> it.
>
> I'll have to change out my KVM for a USB version.

I remember the arguments between Tony I. and Joe Barr on the old Canopus
forum regarding the  Cathedral and Bazaar  testing methodologies. I'd
assume the PS/2 mouse gotcha was the result of Torvalds Bazaar methodology
( enough eyeballs looking at the code should find the errors ) that the
Linux/open source developers espouse. Just regard yourself as one of the
eyeballs that caught the error 

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