From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268065AbUHKNxr (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Aug 2004 09:53:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268066AbUHKNxr (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Aug 2004 09:53:47 -0400 Received: from wsip-68-99-153-203.ri.ri.cox.net ([68.99.153.203]:59301 "EHLO blue-labs.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268065AbUHKNxo (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Aug 2004 09:53:44 -0400 Message-ID: <411A2547.1090406@blue-labs.org> Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 09:55:19 -0400 From: David Ford User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8a3) Gecko/20040809 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Vojtech Pavlik CC: Dmitry Torokhov , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "David N. Welton" , Sascha Wilde Subject: Re: 2.6 kernel won't reboot on AMD system - 8042 problem? References: <4107E788.8030903@eidetix.com> <41122C82.3020304@eidetix.com> <200408110131.14114.dtor_core@ameritech.net> <20040811122711.GA5759@ucw.cz> In-Reply-To: <20040811122711.GA5759@ucw.cz> Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------050505090809020508090106" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------050505090809020508090106 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 --------------050505090809020508090106 Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=utf-8; name="david+challenge-response.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="david+challenge-response.vcf" begin:vcard fn:David Ford n:Ford;David email;internet:david@blue-labs.org title:Industrial Geek tel;home:Ask please tel;cell:(203) 650-3611 x-mozilla-html:TRUE version:2.1 end:vcard --------------050505090809020508090106--