From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 21 7:35:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freeside.fc.net (freeside.fc.net [207.170.70.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5701B37B713 for ; Fri, 21 Jul 2000 07:35:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdunham@freeside.fc.net) Received: (from jdunham@localhost) by freeside.fc.net (8.9.3/8.8.8) id JAA57955; Fri, 21 Jul 2000 09:34:47 -0500 (CDT) From: Jerry Dunham Message-Id: <200007211434.JAA57955@freeside.fc.net> Subject: Re: easier mouse revival technique? In-Reply-To: <39773010.FA0E0EDF@gorean.org> from Doug Barton at "Jul 20, 2000 10:00:00 am" To: DougB@gorean.org (Doug Barton) Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 09:34:47 -0500 (CDT) Cc: sue@welearn.com.au (Sue Blake), freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Doug Barton babbled: > Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 10:00:00 -0700 > From: Doug Barton > Sue Blake wrote: > > > > Today my mouse was unplugged, and when I plugged it back in, it didn't > > work. > > You shouldn't hot plug mice or keyboards on a PC. You can burn out the > controllers. If the mouse comes unplugged while the machine is on, you > should turn the machine off before you plug it back in. That may be true for desktops (I don't know), but I don't believe it to be true for notebooks. It's at least my undrstanding that Dell notebooks are protected from such damage. -- Jerry Dunham FreeBSD http://www.dunham.org jdunham@fc.net jerry@dunham.org (512)335-0674 (H) E Pluribus Unix To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message