Re: ns558 mis-detects gameport

[Neil Darlow]

Hi Vojtech,

On Friday 08 Jul 2005 22:24, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> In the current input GIT tree there is a patch to reverse the order of
> probing (PnP first) for exactly this reason. I expect 2.6.13 should have
> the fix.

Daniel, is it worth backporting this fix for gentoo-sources-2.6.12 so others 
aren't bitten or will we have to wait for 2.6.13?

> As a workaround, you can try disabling the gameport in BIOS. The legacy
> probe won't see it, and the PnP probe might enable it just fine.

Disabling the gameport in my BIOS seems to take it off the bus and PnP doesn't 
see it at all.

Regards,
Neil Darlow
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