From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 22 15:26:14 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D7F016A412 for ; Fri, 22 Sep 2006 15:26:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ggroth@gregs-garage.com) Received: from mail.gregs-garage.com (h-64-105-8-34.chcgilgm.covad.net [64.105.8.34]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1854F43D69 for ; Fri, 22 Sep 2006 15:26:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ggroth@gregs-garage.com) Received: from [192.168.0.150] (unknown [192.168.0.150]) by mail.gregs-garage.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8875114024 for ; Fri, 22 Sep 2006 10:27:41 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <4514008D.2000601@gregs-garage.com> Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 10:26:05 -0500 From: Greg Groth User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Windows/20060909) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20060921223331.18a8d05c.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> <200609220741.02811.mario.lobo@ipad.com.br> <4513F20D.2000807@gregs-garage.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: next episode, continuing saga X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 15:26:14 -0000 hackmiester (Hunter Fuller) wrote: > > On 22 September 2006, at 09:24, Greg Groth wrote: > >> Mario Lobo wrote: >>> On Friday 22 September 2006 02:33, Bill Moran wrote: >>>> jekillen wrote: >>>>> Hello again; >>>>> With FreeBSD and in general, If the monitor is turned off >>>>> is it safe to disconnect it from the machine while the machine >>>>> is running? >>>>> AMD64 socket 754 with separate PCI video card on ECS >>>>> motherboard; no Xwindows installed. if it makes a difference. >>>>> >>>>> want to run the machine headless without shutting it down to >>>>> switch the monitor to another machine. >>>> Yes. It's safe to do that with any OS I'm familiar with. >>> And the keyboard & mouse too. > > The keyboard and mouse are NOT supposed to be hot plugged if they are > PS/2 (although I must admit I haven't had any issues, but I wouldn't > risk a dead PS/2 controller on a production box). USB ones don't care. > The neat thing about that is you can have your machine boot with no > keyboard, you can plug in a USB one and then hook up a monitor and have > a head all of a sudden. This is handy when your box's sshd dies for some > reason, which has happened to me once... >> >> I've never had any issues, provided I set the option to NOT halt on >> keyboard errors at boot in the bios. >> >> Best regards, >> Greg Groth I've never hot-swapped a keyboard, although I have unplugged one from a running machine with no issues. Best regards, Greg Groth