I just ran into the keyboard prob this past Thursday. I hot-plugged it and voila, problem solved. Would of been a real pain to reboot because I was in the middle of key dist for my remote ssh boxes. Chuck At 09:34 AM 12/01/1998 -0500, Jon Lewis wrote: >I've been hot plugging AT keyboards for years in dozens of systems, and >never had a problem. Is someone saying this is a bad idea, or do the >rules change with ATX? I used to hot-plug AT keyboards all the time. Then one time at work, the system died as soon as I unplugged the keyboard, and wouldn't even power up after that. When I called the repair crew they said, "You can't do that!" and sent someone out to replace the mobo. I figured it was just poor design on Compaq's part, so I just stopped hot-plugging Compaqs after that. Then a few years later I killed one of my own systems (generic Taiwanese 486/VLB mobo) the same way, and decided that hot-plugging PC keyboards really is a bad idea. (I managed to resurrect this mobo by finding and removing the burned-out component, and soldering on a new one.) I still use keyboard switchboxes, and have never had a problem with them. As far as I know, AT-style and PS/2-style keyboards are electrically identical -- the only difference is the size of the connector. - Linux SMP list: FIRST see FAQ at http://www.irisa.fr/prive/mentre/smp-faq/ To Unsubscribe: send "unsubscribe linux-smp" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Linux SMP list: FIRST see FAQ at http://www.irisa.fr/prive/mentre/smp-faq/ To Unsubscribe: send "unsubscribe linux-smp" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
