Am Donnerstag, 15. März 2007 16:33:40 schrieb Dan Farrell: > On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 15:44:29 +0100 > > Michael Schreckenbauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Am Donnerstag, 15. März 2007 15:28:16 schrieb Dan Farrell: > > > (windows refuses to hotswap mice, for example, and > > > my techie windows-poweruser roommate insists that he's never been > > > able to hotplug keyboards either, unless they were attached when the > > > computer booted, although i'm almost positive he's wrong) > > > > Sorry, if I get this wrong. This is about PS/2-Ports, right? > > Well your roommate is right then, PS/2 is not hotpluggable. Neither > > the protocol nor the plugs are designed for this kind of use. It > > sometimes works, but there is always the danger, your computer gets > > damaged.
> well, i definitely hotswap keyboards all the time and i've never once > had a problem, even in windows. I guess mice have to be plugged in at > boot to work, I can't use them after booting if they weren't. > Kebyoards however work fine, even if they weren't plugged in when the > computer booted. I didn't test it for windows. I'd call this luck ;) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PS/2_connector See "Potential Damage" Regards, Michael -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
