From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun May 6 1:48:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from sdmail0.sd.bmarts.com (sdmail0.sd.bmarts.com [209.247.77.155]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E9BD37B422 for ; Sun, 6 May 2001 01:48:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gordont@bluemtn.net) Received: from localhost (gordont@localhost) by sdmail0.sd.bmarts.com (8.11.3/8.11.2/BMA1.1) with ESMTP id f468jsY05801; Sun, 6 May 2001 01:45:54 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 6 May 2001 01:45:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Gordon Tetlow X-X-Sender: To: Ceri Storey Cc: Ingo Flaschberger , Subject: Re: no keyboard In-Reply-To: <20010505195859.A383@cds220.halls.umist.ac.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 5 May 2001, Ceri Storey wrote: > On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 08:54:18PM +0200, Ingo Flaschberger wrote: > > > Note : this is a way to kill your keyboard : an AT keyboard is not > > > hot-plug compatible > > > > i have never killed a keyboard with un / plugging. > > at linux it works. > Well, it works, until your keyboard does actually break :) I've toasted lot of keyboards this way (Fujitsu POS no less). I have found that IBM keyboards take the punishment quite well. At least I can count on IBM engineering. As a result, that's the only type of kbd we keep in our datacenters. -gordon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message