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Re: Boot failure with kernel 2.6.16 on G3 (Gossamer)



On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 07:54:03PM +0300, Yavor Doganov wrote:
> Thanks for the pointer.  2.6.15 starts to boot, but I get the
> following error:
> 
> i8042.c: No controller found.  
> FATAL: Error inserting i8042
> (/lib/modules/2.6.15-1-powerpc/kernel/drivers/input/serio/i8042.ko):
> No such device
> 
> It then drops me to a shell.  Same behaviour with 2.6.14 :/

It's odd that this would be considered a fatal error. A Mac doesn't
have an i8042 input controller. That is the old-fashioned PC style
input (AT keyboard, etc.) and shouldn't even try to load on a Mac.
At one point, just loading this driver would crash most Macs.

	Brad Boyer
	flar@allandria.com



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