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I have a nettop (asrock s330) running openSUSE 11.4. When it boots on my console I get: i8042: Failed to disable AUX port, but continuing anyway... Is this a SiS? i8042: If AUX port is really absent please use the 'i8042.noaux' option and then panics. I have attached a picture of the call trace.

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Have you tried adding the i8042.noaux option to the kernel boot command line?

The kernel panics *unless* I use the i8042.noaux. If I use it, booting proceeds fine. I was getting the same messages with kernel 2.6.39.3-37.1 but no panic. The point I am trying to make is that going to kernel 3.x the relevant code got broken maybe?

So it seems that it writes something weird to the device. The device then makes the bus crazy. The funny thing is that there is no change in the i8042 code from 2.6.39 to 3.0.4.

Could you boot with some vga= command that we can see the NMI message in full?

A picture of the kernel panic in full is available here: http://www.technoex.gr/~dmatz/8042_panic.jpeg I have also attached the dmesg output of kernel 2.6.39. Regards, Dimitris