Re: i8042 driver non-determinantly chokes mac on boot

From: Vojtech Pavlik
Date: Thu Jun 24 2004 - 10:41:27 EST


On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 04:39:10AM -0400, David Eger wrote:
> Though I'm not sure I even have an i8042 (I'm guessing no, as I run
> on a Mac) the detection failure path has gone a little wonky in recent
> kernels. Half the time it times out with the following (as it ought,
> me thinks)
>
> IN from bad port 64 at c01f3100
> IN from bad port 64 at c01f3100
> IN from bad port 64 at c01f3100
> IN from bad port 64 at c01f3100
> i8042.c: i8042 controller self test timeout.
>
> But the other half of the time it stalls my machine out entirely.
> Clues? Want my .config?
>
> I'm running on a Titanium PowerBook3,5.

I suppose you should disable it, it really has no bussiness running on a
Mac. Does it write anything when it also crashes?

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Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs, SuSE CR
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