Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 14:40:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Martin Blapp <mb@imp.ch> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/17148: If keyboard is not attached while booting, it is not detected if attached later Message-ID: <200004052140.OAA77803@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR kern/17148; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Martin Blapp <mb@imp.ch> To: Wilko Bulte <wkb@chello.nl> Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/17148: If keyboard is not attached while booting, it is not detected if attached later Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 23:35:33 +0200 Hi, This PR can be closed. It's fixed by Yokota in 4.0 Release. Martin Martin Blapp, mb@imp.ch ------------------------------------------------ Improware AG, UNIX solution and service provider Zurlindenstrasse 29, 4133 Pratteln, Switzerland Phone: +41 79 370 26 05, Fax: +41 61 826 93 01 ------------------------------------------------ On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Wilko Bulte wrote: > PC keyboards were never designed to be [un]plugged with the machine > powered on. > You would not be the first one to blow keyboard fuses or keyboard > controller chips. > The keyboard resetting or not (meaning that its own in-keyboard chips > reset correctly) > depends on the keyboard itself. Some reset all the time, some never, > some sometimes. > > In short: don't do that if you prefer your hardware to remain in good > working order. > > Wilko > wilko@freebsd.org > > [ and before someone tells me: I know most people get away with this. > That does not > make it a good idea ] > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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