From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat May 5 15:41:23 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 2F96A37B422 for ; Sat, 5 May 2001 15:41:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id f45MfE413092; Sat, 5 May 2001 15:41:14 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 5 May 2001 15:41:14 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Paul Halliday Cc: Ceri Storey , Ingo Flaschberger , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: no keyboard Message-ID: <20010505154114.F18676@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <3AF44907.D1DC4C89@herbelot.com> <20010505195859.A383@cds220.halls.umist.ac.uk> <20010505121008.E18676@fw.wintelcom.net> <3AF46881.67D34B9D@penix.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3AF46881.67D34B9D@penix.org>; from dp@penix.org on Sat, May 05, 2001 at 04:54:25PM -0400 X-all-your-base: are belong to us. Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Paul Halliday [010505 13:41] wrote: > 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. Anything is possible, and I have heard of it happening at least once. One of the other fun things about hot swapping keyboards is that you can actually damage the connector which can cause a short on the motherboard if the poor thing detaches then proceeds to relocate itself across some contacts. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [alfred@freebsd.org] Daemon News Magazine in your snail-mail! http://magazine.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message