From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 7 03:55:04 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA10145 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 7 Jan 1999 03:55:04 -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 DAA10140 for ; Thu, 7 Jan 1999 03:55:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) id UAA09181; Thu, 7 Jan 1999 20:54:26 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <36949B2F.33F5F54F@newsguy.com> Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 20:31:59 +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 , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: psm0 on laptops. References: <4.1.19990106130324.00bfa570@genesis.ispace.com> <4.1.19990106144232.00bff100@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: > > The BIOS also controls if the PS/2 port is active or not. However if you > have nothing plugged into it, it assumes that the bios setting of (active) > is being used, and thus you never purchased the 'optional cable'. If > there's something plugged into it, the BIOS activates the port. So > Enabled/Disabled is really only based on if something is plugged into it, > gotta love that fuzzy logic. Otherwise IRQ 11 is free. And how does it work in the case of the hot pluggable ones? -- 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