- Note that this only checks for lines with "keyboard" or "PS/2 Mouse" in
- them. If you have a serial mouse, it won't detect that, it will only detect
- keyboard activity. That's because there's no way to tell the difference
- between a serial mouse and a general serial port, and it would be somewhat
- unfortunate to have the screensaver turn off when the modem on COM1 burped.
+ Joy! So how are we expected to parse that? Well, this code doesn't
+ parse it: it saves the first line with the string "keyboard" (or
+ "i8042") in it, and does a string-comparison to note when it has
+ changed. If there are two "i8042" lines, we assume the first is
+ the keyboard and the second is the mouse (doesn't matter which is
+ which, really, as long as we don't compare them against each other.)
+
+ Thanks to Nat Friedman <nat@nat.org> for figuring out most of this crap.
+
+ Note that if you have a serial or USB mouse, or a USB keyboard, it won't
+ detect it. That's because there's no way to tell the difference between a
+ serial mouse and a general serial port, and all USB devices look the same
+ from here. It would be somewhat unfortunate to have the screensaver turn
+ off when the modem on COM1 burped, or when a USB disk was accessed.