[rescue] Best brains: Ã? Dead keyboard ports on PC hardware

Jonathan C. Patschke jp at celestrion.net
Mon Jun 25 11:19:20 CDT 2007


On Mon, 25 Jun 2007, Joshua D. Boyd wrote:

> My understanding is that it is a licensing restriction that MS
> enforced by requiring a custom HAL to be shipped with bigger machines
> from the hardware vendor.

I wonder if you could use a Win2k Server HAL, or if the two HALs are
actually the same code that turn the limitations on/off in response to
the ProductType Registry key.

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