Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2016 10:42:36 +0100 From: Bernt Hansson <bah@bananmonarki.se> To: Dmitry Bachilo <1364@allunix.ru>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How can FreeBSD work with keyboard on a dead southbridge where other systems fail? Message-ID: <56F6598C.4060208@bananmonarki.se> In-Reply-To: <56F56118.2070205@allunix.ru> References: <56F56118.2070205@allunix.ru>
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On 2016-03-25 17:02, Dmitry Bachilo wrote: > So, here is the story: I have a laptop Acer Aspire 5100, which has a > dead southbridge. In any operating system it predictibly results in > non-working audio, usb, keyboard and touchpad. I tried Windows XP, > Windows 7, Linux and FreeDOS. They all work ok on it except this minor > stuff. I also obvioulsy can't access BIOS since keyboard is dead. And > if I install FreeBSD on it ofcouse I cant skip that autoboot delay > with the boot menu. But if system boots - the keyboards suddenly works > like a charm, and that makes my laptop totally usable and fine (for > example to set up ethrenet switches using cardbus serial adapter). > That's a miracle! Or is it? > > So the question is: what makes FreeBSD so different? How does it work > with the keyboard and why no other OS uses this method then? > > P.S. I even made the video about this situation and it has an image of > this laptop's motherboard if needed. Here it is: > https://youtu.be/JBt_fbvpGww > The question was...
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