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From: karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Karl Denninger)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: ATI VGA Wonder (was Re: Use a 386 unix as a home machine?).
Summary: Can this signature check be disabled?
Message-ID: <1990Jan2.151625.3468@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
Date: 2 Jan 90 15:16:25 GMT
References: <1557@aber-cs.UUCP> <1989Dec25.164606.1072@ddsw1.MCS.COM> <397@oha.UUCP> <1989Dec29.213443.8335@ddsw1.MCS.COM> <3325@kd4nc.UUCP>
Reply-To: karl@mcs.MCS.COM (Karl Denninger)
Organization: Macro Computer Solutions, Inc. - Mundelein, IL
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In article <3325@kd4nc.UUCP> ke4zv@kd4nc.UUCP (Gary Coffman) writes:

>The problem with the ATI bus mouse is that it is not a Microsoft INPort Bus
>Mouse. ISC's driver does a signature check to make sure it is talking to an
>honest to GOD INPort chip. This fails of course with the ATI bus mouse. It
>took me two weeks of digging to find this nasty. 

Does anyone have a patch to disable that signature check?  It would be nice
to have!

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