Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 15 Jan 1999 08:53:26 -0600 | From | Charles Cazabon <> | Subject | Re: ISSUE: psaux does not load in 2.2.0pre6 |
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Matthew Kirkwood <weejock@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk> wrote: > > A lot of PCs lock hard when you attach a PS/2 mouse while running. (I'm > pretty sure this is a hardware thing, rather than a driver issue, although > I don't remember being foolish enough to try it on a running Linux box :)
Actually, on a lot of hardware, inserting on removing a PS/2 mouse or keyboard while powered-on can fry the keyboard controller chip on the motherboard. It will work 99 times out of 100, but every so often the hardware will blow up. I've seen over a dozen machines fried this way over the years.
Charles Cazabon -- ---------------------------------------------------- Charles Cazabon <charlesc-linux@qcc.sk.ca> Any opinions expressed are just that -- my opinions. ----------------------------------------------------
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