Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1999 22:50:46 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: Drew Baxter <netmonger@genesis.ispace.com> Cc: Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>, "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: psm0 on laptops. Message-ID: <36936A36.B6DC5CDB@newsguy.com> References: <Your message of "Wed, 06 Jan 1999 11:55:33 %2B1030." <XFMail.990106115533.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <XFMail.990106115533.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <4.1.19990105215759.00c0b6d0@genesis.ispace.com>
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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
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