From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 6 10:33:55 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA18948 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 6 Jan 1999 10:33:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA18939 for ; Wed, 6 Jan 1999 10:33:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) id DAA05911; Thu, 7 Jan 1999 03:33:04 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <36936A36.B6DC5CDB@newsguy.com> Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1999 22:50:46 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Drew Baxter CC: Kazutaka YOKOTA , "Daniel O'Connor" , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: psm0 on laptops. References: <4.1.19990105215759.00c0b6d0@genesis.ispace.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Drew Baxter wrote: > > Alright, so I'm assuming a bunch of crap. The bottom line is the PS/2 > ports don't like to be hot plugged, because the BIOS checks for the devices > upon bootup. If you've ever seen a Packard Bell (amongst other machines) > it shows "keyboard detected, mouse detected' during the initial startup, > that determines if the computer has them or not right then and there... Well, in my notebook the ps/2 mouse is hot-pluggable, and Windows never had any sort of problem detecting which I was using, external or builtin mouse, at any time. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com "Heart like a Gabriel, pure and white as ivory, soul like a lucifer, black and cold as a piece of lead." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message