Gerald Teschl wrote:
> Hi I just noticed that the keyboard will not work
> on boxes which have a usb device connected during boot.
> The i8042 driver will fail to init during boot:
> 
> Can't read CTR while initializing i8042.
> 
> We have a contract with HP and it seems to affect (at least)
> all HP computers we have. Possible workarounds are to
> replace the usb mouse by ps/2 one or to boot with acpi off.
> 
> The old HP series workes with SL4.1, but the new one's require
> SL4.2 for the NIC to work;-(
> 
> 
> Gerald
> 
> PS: Is turning acpi off expected to have sideeffects (other than
> PM not working - which is no big deal for a desktop).

Unless it got fixed, I believe none of the acpi stuff was being used by 
default.  (or was that apic ... ugg ... couldn't they have picked 
different letters)  So turning it off doesn't have too much affect.

Troy

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