From owner-freebsd-current Fri Mar 10 19:51:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BF9F37B88E; Fri, 10 Mar 2000 19:51:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA74960; Fri, 10 Mar 2000 20:51:34 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id UAA20434; Fri, 10 Mar 2000 20:51:11 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <200003110351.UAA20434@harmony.village.org> To: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" Subject: Re: 4.0-20000307-CURRENT kern.flp keyboard probe questions Cc: Mike Smith , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 10 Mar 2000 20:30:41 CST." <4.3.2.20000310202045.00b99ee0@207.227.119.2> References: <4.3.2.20000310202045.00b99ee0@207.227.119.2> Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 20:51:11 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <4.3.2.20000310202045.00b99ee0@207.227.119.2> "Jeffrey J. Mountin" writes: : Can't safely? Why the hell not? The spec doesn't allow for it. And most mobo mfg don't properly ground things so that you won't accidentally introduce a large static zap into the system. : Been hot-swapping keyboards for many years without *any* problems. Old DIN : style and PS2, doesn't matter. Even Doze doesn't mind. Usually it doesn't matter. However, sometimes it does. I've done it myself up until recently. Recently, I just killed two mobo keyboard controllers for reasons unknown. Maybe it was hot plugging, maybe it was a bad keyboard, who knows. Strangest thing I've ever seen. Only thing that in common is that my wife was using both of the machines at the time. BTW, That's why the mechanical keyboard work most of the time. They don't have the static problem that normal plugging has... Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message