APM hangs during boot w/out keyboard plugged in.

APM hangs during boot w/out keyboard plugged in.

[Ben Greear]

I have noticed that the APM initialization always hangs when I
try to boot my various machines w/out the keyboard plugged in.

This is true of many kernels, including the one shipped with RH 7.3.

For now, I have to re-compile the kernel w/out APM support.  Is
there some fundamental problem with using APM w/out a keyboard,
or can the code be fixed?

My motherboard is Intel EEA2, 815 chipset.  If more information
will help, please let me know and I'll provide it.

Thanks,
Ben

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Re: APM hangs during boot w/out keyboard plugged in.

[Stephen Rothwell]

Hi Ben,

On Sat, 11 May 2002 11:07:47 -0700 Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> wrote:
>
> I have noticed that the APM initialization always hangs when I
> try to boot my various machines w/out the keyboard plugged in.
> 
> This is true of many kernels, including the one shipped with RH 7.3.
> 
> For now, I have to re-compile the kernel w/out APM support.  Is
> there some fundamental problem with using APM w/out a keyboard,
> or can the code be fixed?
> 
> My motherboard is Intel EEA2, 815 chipset.  If more information
> will help, please let me know and I'll provide it.

This sounds like a probelm with the BIOS on your computer.  The apm
driver in the kernel has no dependencies on the keyboard.

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