>> and floppy. Another strange thing about this machine (P200 MMX, Award 4.51PG
>> BIOS, 430HX chipset) is that it hangs every time PS/2 mouse is moved before
>> its driver is loaded. Is it hardware problem, or should I upgrade the BIOS?
>> Win95 do not have any problems though.
>Very strange indeed. I really dont know.
Peter Benie discovered this problem this time last year.
Not sure how/if he fixed it. He wrote:
|> What the also have in common is a PS/2 mouse, but during the
|> installation, I'm using a kernel without a PS/2 mouse driver.
|>
|> The keyboard driver is roughly:
|> On IRQ1:
|> {
|> while (data is waiting on IO port and data is not mouse data)
|> {
|> read data from kbd controller
|> process data
|> }
|> }
|>
|> The mouse driver is roughly:
|> On IRQ12:
|> {
|> while (data is waiting on IO port)
|> {
|> read data from kbd controller
|> process data
|> }
|> }
|>
|> If you move the mouse, the keyboard controller gets some mouse data
|> which the keyboard driver refuses to read. Without the mouse driver
|> installed, no more data can be read.
|>
|> The result is a keyboard lockup, and since the machine is being
|> installed, it appears that it has completely crashed.
-jonathan
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