Re: PROBLEM: 2.6.9-rc3, i8042.c: Can't read CTR while initializingi8042

[Håkan Lindqvist]

On ons, 2004-10-06 at 17:13 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> For E7xxx systems you need to disable USB legacy support in the BIOS
> because SMM only works on the boot processor. There is a patch to
> automate it in 2.6.8.1-ac you can also borrow

For the record, having to disable USB legacy for i8042 initialization to
work reliably also seems to apply to my i850 based motherboard (Asus
P4T533-C).

(About four out of five boots the i8042 initialization fails with
vanilla 2.6.9-rc3 when USB legacy is enabled.)


Thanks,
Håkan

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