From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat May 5 12:10:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB98437B422 for ; Sat, 5 May 2001 12:10:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id f45JA8N11887; Sat, 5 May 2001 12:10:08 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 5 May 2001 12:10:08 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Ceri Storey Cc: Ingo Flaschberger , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: no keyboard Message-ID: <20010505121008.E18676@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <3AF44907.D1DC4C89@herbelot.com> <20010505195859.A383@cds220.halls.umist.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010505195859.A383@cds220.halls.umist.ac.uk>; from c.storey@student.umist.ac.uk on Sat, May 05, 2001 at 07:58:59PM +0100 X-all-your-base: are belong to us. Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Ceri Storey [010505 11:59] 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 :) It can actually fry the entire motherboard. I doubt linux can prevent that. FreeBSD 4.3 allows hotswap again. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [alfred@freebsd.org] http://www.egr.unlv.edu/~slumos/on-netbsd.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message