Date: Sat, 05 May 2001 16:54:25 -0400 From: Paul Halliday <dp@penix.org> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> Cc: Ceri Storey <c.storey@student.umist.ac.uk>, Ingo Flaschberger <if@sil.at>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: no keyboard Message-ID: <3AF46881.67D34B9D@penix.org> References: <3AF44907.D1DC4C89@herbelot.com> <Pine.SOL.4.21.0105052051180.16630-100000@ikarus> <20010505195859.A383@cds220.halls.umist.ac.uk> <20010505121008.E18676@fw.wintelcom.net>
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Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > * Ceri Storey <c.storey@student.umist.ac.uk> [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. > it would blow the inline fuse before it fries the mother board. > 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 -- Paul Halliday. http://dp.penix.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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