Re: 2.6 kernel won't reboot on AMD system - 8042 problem?

[David Ford <david+challenge-response@blue-labs.org>]

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Vojtech Pavlik wrote:

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>>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.
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>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.
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>

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


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