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From: "Peter Schuller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Matthew Emmerton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2004 15:54
Subject: Re: disconnecting keyboard: big trouble !?!
At 08:44 AM 3/23/2004, Nathan Kinkade wrote:
Can anyone on the list point me to a manufacturers site or documentation
that unequivocally states in clear terms the real dangers of hotplugging
a PS/2 device? Like some of the other people who have replied, in the
past I have hot-plugged many a PS/2 d
On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 04:49:09PM -0800, Chris Pressey wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 10:44:11 -0600
> Nathan Kinkade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Can anyone on the list point me to a manufacturers site or
> > documentation that unequivocally states in clear terms the real
> > dangers of hotplu
On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 10:44:11 -0600
Nathan Kinkade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Can anyone on the list point me to a manufacturers site or
> documentation that unequivocally states in clear terms the real
> dangers of hotplugging a PS/2 device?
How about http://www.heurtley.com/richard/maintenance
On Tuesday 23 March 2004 19.44, Matthew Emmerton wrote:
> > That argument just doesn't hold in home environments or low-budget colo
> > environments.
>
> If you're low-budget, buy another keyboard!
And have ten+ keyboards in the rack? At home? It's a pain. And even with ten
keyboards it's a pain
On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Peter Schuller wrote:
> Hello,
>
> sorry for butting in late here, but this keyboard plugging issue has been a
> pet peeve of mine for quite a while.
>
> > But of course, the best solution to this whole hot-plugging issue is this:
> >
> > BUY ANOTHER KEYBOARD OR MOUSE.
> >
>
Hello,
sorry for butting in late here, but this keyboard plugging issue has been a
pet peeve of mine for quite a while.
> But of course, the best solution to this whole hot-plugging issue is this:
>
> BUY ANOTHER KEYBOARD OR MOUSE.
>
> What you would rather do? Buy a $20 keyboard/mouse or a $15
On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 01:10:13AM -0500, Steve Ireland wrote:
> This is a PS/2 thing, not an operating system thing. You really can
> fry your motherboard plugging and unplugging PS/2 devices while the
> system is powered up.
>
> Regards,
>
> Steve
This is off-topic to the list, but I've been
On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Wayne Sierke wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 16:52, Shaun T. Erickson wrote:
> > Steve Ireland wrote:
> >
> > > This is a PS/2 thing, not an operating system thing. You really can
> > > fry your motherboard plugging and unplugging PS/2 devices while the
> > > system is powered
On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 01:22:53AM -0500, Shaun T. Erickson typed:
> Steve Ireland wrote:
>
> >This is a PS/2 thing, not an operating system thing. You really can
> >fry your motherboard plugging and unplugging PS/2 devices while the
> >system is powered up.
>
> I suppose it's possible, but I kno
On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 16:52, Shaun T. Erickson wrote:
> Steve Ireland wrote:
>
> > This is a PS/2 thing, not an operating system thing. You really can
> > fry your motherboard plugging and unplugging PS/2 devices while the
> > system is powered up.
>
> I suppose it's possible, but I know I 've ne
Steve Ireland wrote:
This is a PS/2 thing, not an operating system thing. You really can
fry your motherboard plugging and unplugging PS/2 devices while the
system is powered up.
I suppose it's possible, but I know I 've never fry'd one. I'm always
unplugging and pluging mine back in. The key to
Steve Ireland wrote:
Robert Huff wrote:
For some reason, I needed to borrow the keyboard from my FreeBSD
PC (running 4.9 STABLE). So I disconnected the keyboard.
When I reconnected it some time later, the system refused to use
the keyboard. Key hits were totally ignored.
Is the keyboard USB or PS
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From: "Rob" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2004 00:42
Subject: Re: disconnecting keyboard: big trouble !?!
>
> Robert Huff wrote:
> >
> >> For some reason, I needed to borrow the ke
Robert Huff wrote:
For some reason, I needed to borrow the keyboard from my FreeBSD
PC (running 4.9 STABLE). So I disconnected the keyboard.
When I reconnected it some time later, the system refused to use
the keyboard. Key hits were totally ignored.
Is the keyboard USB or PS/2?
Sorry, forgot t
Hello:
> For some reason, I needed to borrow the keyboard from my FreeBSD
> PC (running 4.9 STABLE). So I disconnected the keyboard.
>
> When I reconnected it some time later, the system refused to use
> the keyboard. Key hits were totally ignored.
Is the keyboard USB or PS/2?
Hi,
For some reason, I needed to borrow the keyboard from my FreeBSD PC
(running 4.9 STABLE). So I disconnected the keyboard.
When I reconnected it some time later, the system refused to use the
keyboard. Key hits were totally ignored.
I had to brutally reset my PC to get it back to work properl
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