Re: That horrible hack from hell called A20

H. Peter Anvin
2000-12-06T02:37:28Z

Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > Okay, here is my latest attempt to find a way to toggle A20M# that
> > genuinely works on all machines -- including Olivettis, IBM Aptivas,
> > bizarre notebooks, yadda yadda.
>
> Can I suggest a slightly different hammer. Flip the A20 via the keyboard
> controller and set the timeout to say 1 second. If that fails then kick the
> 0x92 stuff ?

I think that's pretty much the one remaining plan.

-hpa

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