Re: 2.6 kernel won't reboot on AMD system - 8042 problem?

[David Ford]

Vojtech Pavlik wrote:

> [...]
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Could you please try the patch below? I am interested in tests both with
> > and without keyboard/mouse. The main idea is to leave ports that have been
> > disabled by BIOS alone... The patch compiles but otherwise untested. Against
> > 2.6.7.
> >    
>
> Well, this has a problem - plugging a mouse later will never work, as
> the interface will be disabled by the BIOS if a mouse is not present at
> boot.
>  

Hmm, this may be the design of the system, but from experience I can say 
that I've only had one computer that wouldn't later use a mouse or 
keyboard if it wasn't plugged in at boot.  All my systems for the last 
three years will happily boot with nothing plugged in and use a mouse 
and keyboard whenever you want to plug them in.  That one system that 
needed the mouse/keyboard plugged in at boot was Winblows.  It would 
work fine in Linux.

David

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