From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat May 5 13:42:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from tango.entreri.com (tango.entreri.com [205.219.158.250]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C42437B422 for ; Sat, 5 May 2001 13:42:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dp@penix.org) Received: from penix.org (Toronto-ppp220788.sympatico.ca [64.228.103.113]) by tango.entreri.com (8.10.2/8.9.1) with ESMTP id f45Kfjx05189; Sat, 5 May 2001 15:41:46 -0500 Message-ID: <3AF46881.67D34B9D@penix.org> Date: Sat, 05 May 2001 16:54:25 -0400 From: Paul Halliday X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.3-RC i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: Ceri Storey , Ingo Flaschberger , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: no keyboard References: <3AF44907.D1DC4C89@herbelot.com> <20010505195859.A383@cds220.halls.umist.ac.uk> <20010505121008.E18676@fw.wintelcom.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > * 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. > 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