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From: Billy Holmes <billy@××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] psmouse.c lost sync at byte 1
Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2007 22:09:14
Message-Id: 20071207165119.pda5koptwgws00o0@box251.bluehost.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] psmouse.c lost sync at byte 1 by Daniel Lehle
1 Quoting Daniel Lehle <ich@××××××.de>:
2
3 > But what does this parameter do exactly?
4 > "i8042.nomux=1"
5
6 not exactly sure :)
7
8 But I'd imagine it's your intel chipset, and a driver issue in the
9 kernel that's expecting a newer intel chipset and thus attempting to
10 use a newer feature (that it expects in your older chipset). That
11 option probably disables the kernel driver from attempting to use that
12 feature.
13
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