Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1999 18:00:23 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: netmonger@genesis.ispace.com (Drew Baxter) Cc: yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp, doconnor@gsoft.com.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: psm0 on laptops. Message-ID: <199901061800.LAA06390@usr05.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990105215759.00c0b6d0@genesis.ispace.com> from "Drew Baxter" at Jan 5, 99 10:03:15 pm
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> 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... Perfect. FreeBSD doesn't use the BIOS for this stuff. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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