Re: forcing PS/2 USB emulation off

Vojtech Pavlik
2004-10-19T06:31:19Z

On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 09:45:39AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:

> I'm a little leary of changing the way the kernel grabs the USB hardware
> from the way we have been doing it for the past 6 years. So by
> providing the option for people who have broken machines like these, we
> will let them work properly, and it should not affect any of the zillion
> other people out there with working hardware.
>
> Or, if we can determine a specific model of hardware that really needs
> this option enabled, we can do that automatically. If you look at the
> patch, we do that for some specific IBM machines for this very reason.
>
> Is there any consistancy with the type of hardware that you see being
> reported for this issue?

Like 30% of all notebooks? ;) They do boot without the USB handoff, the
PS/2 mouse works, but only as a PS/2 mouse, no extended capabilities
detection is possible due to the BIOS interference.

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Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs, SuSE CR