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Date:      Thu, 07 Jan 1999 20:31:59 +0900
From:      "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
To:        Drew Baxter <netmonger@genesis.ispace.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: psm0 on laptops.
Message-ID:  <36949B2F.33F5F54F@newsguy.com>
References:  <4.1.19990106130324.00bfa570@genesis.ispace.com> <4.1.19990106144232.00bff100@genesis.ispace.com>

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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."


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