Bug 583782

Summary: "i8042.c: No controller found" appears when server boots.
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Luciano Scalabrini <lscalabr>
Component: kernelAssignee: Prarit Bhargava <prarit>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Red Hat Kernel QE team <kernel-qe>
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Version: 5.4CC: cdahlin, cruzgm, gyasue, jwilson, tao, t-ihara
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Hardware: i386   
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Description Luciano Scalabrini 2010-04-19 17:46:03 UTC 
Created attachment 407645 [details]
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Description of problem:
When the server boots this message appears:

Red Hat ...
i8042.c: No controller found 


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Hardware used: Dell Poweredge T310
OS: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.4 (Tikanga)
2.6.18-164.el5

How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot the server
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Actual results:
This message appears on a blank screen: i8042.c: No controller found

Expected results:
Do not show that message. 


Additional info:

This bug was reported with a similar issue on Fedora 8: BZ #440470
Comment 1 Prarit Bhargava 2010-04-22 16:47:41 UTC 
This is known behavior of the i8042 driver -- it outputs a loud warning when no i8042.c device has been found.  It is still this way upstream FWIW so I'm not inclined to change the default behavior.

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