Sounds curious, as far as I know 8042 errors seem to be caused by bad keyboard controllers.  Have you tried a couple of Linux Distros?  If it happens in a couple different distros, I would guess this is a hardware problem as that MB has been reported to work. 
-Josh

On 7/11/05, Andrey Schwedovitch <schwed@ivc.orw.ru> wrote:

thanks for Your answer..

i know it... but at this time i haven't direct(or indirect) access to
internet... only email... :-( and have this motherboard..

when i trying to boot linux from LiveCD it boots very-very slowly.. at
begin it says something like "8042 error".. i couldn't wait until
boot-process ends...

Joshua Liebowitz wrote:

> I think you should try google before posting to this news group.
> Maybe even the manuf. website.  Why don't you try using Knoppix?  This
> isn't a linux newbie newsgroup.
>
> On 7/11/05, * Andrey Schwedovitch* <schwed@ivc.orw.ru
> <mailto:schwed@ivc.orw.ru >> wrote:
>
>     Has anyone GA-K8N Ultra 9 motherboard?
>
>     Is it linux-friendly?
>     Does it support dual-core CPUs?
>     PS/2 keyboards works correctly with this motherboard?
>     How about livecd distros (like Knoppix) on it?
>
>     Thanks You for answers...
>
>     sorry for my bad english :-(
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