Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 19 Oct 2004 08:30:57 +0200 | From | Vojtech Pavlik <> | Subject | Re: forcing PS/2 USB emulation off |
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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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