> On Tue, Mar 16, 1999 at 08:31:21AM +0000, Johan Myréen wrote:
>
> > Sorry, no. The idea is to detect a mouse port if it is there, but at the
> > same time make sure the detection routine does not return "true" if a
> > port is not present. The patch first tries to write a byte into the aux
> > port output buffer, and then reads it back. If that succeeds, we have an
> > aux port. If the write fails, we try exactly the same command with the
> > keyboard output buffer. We make the assumption that these two commands
> > are either both implemented, or neither of them are implemented on a
> > controller with an aux port. If both writes fail, we are back in square
> > one, and have to try other (not perfectly reliable) tricks to detect the
> > port.
> >
> > Unfortunately, your report tells us that this strategy doesn't work.
> > Your controller implements one of the commands, but not the other.
>
> Another idea - could it be that there is a bug in the implementation of
> the 'put mouse buffer' command on that motherboard that puts the byte
> into the keyboard buffer instead? It'd be interesting to check that.
Unfortunately, I am not knowledgeable on psaux controllers.
If somebody provides me with a piece of code, I would be willing to
help/try/test.
Regards
Ralf
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