Re: SuperMicro P5MMA98 motherboard

Pavel Machek (pavel@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz)
Wed, 28 Jan 1998 15:57:16 +0100

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> it appears that there is a bug in the BIOS which causes Linux to get keyboard
> timeouts
>
> can anyone on this list give me a definitive statement on which version of the
> BIOS i should be using
>
> preferably from someone who has such a motherboard and has done the upgrade!
>
> i'm building 8 machines for a customer and have already toasted at least one
> motherboard (possibly three)

You mean that motherboard died? It better should not...

> so i want to get the rest right :-(

What about making linux initialize it itself? there's 'config' switch
somewhere in keyboard.c

Pavel

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