[H-GEN] usb [Fwd: [COLOS_Linux] V2 WOWOWOWOW]

[Byron Ellacott]

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On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, Sarah Hollings wrote:

> When I was giving my "I was a Linux Newbie" talk someone asked about usb
> support.

Hm, well, I've been using a USB mouse since 2.2.12 or so with a XFree86
3.3.6 NVidia server.  From the corel site, there doesn't seem to be
anything special about corel in particular beyond the ``Konnect Wizard''
and the USB audio driver, although the first has that suspicious KDE name
and the second is probably open source.

There are a host of USB devices that won't work with Linux simply because
they're closed hardware, just like there's a host of PCI devices that
won't work with Linux, but there's also a large number that use standard
protocols and *will* work.

Oh, and USB keyboards are often supported by the BIOS transparently to the
OS.

-- 
bje


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