Re: Keyboard/mouse lockup... again

From: Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Date: Sat Mar 11 2000 - 22:10:42 EST


On Sat, 11 Mar 2000, Wakko Warner wrote:
> >
> > Does that really simply change make your keyboard come to life again?
>
> You mean the entire block, right? I'm not sure about blu3's problem, but
> mine is only triggered if:

No, I mean just the single test. The stuff inside the test shouldstay,
just remove the "if (xxx)" or replace it with "if (1) {... }"

> 1) the cdrom is in the machine at boot
> 2) Yenta is compiled in (or just wait, it'll hit yenta_init and others I
> assume later and do the same thing)
> 3) A mouse event occures and /dev/psaux is opened.

It's going to be timing-related, and the cdrom thing and everything elseis
probably just black magic.

I could be wrong, of course. But I'm never wrong.

                Linus

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