disconnecting keyboard: big trouble !?!
Shaun T. Erickson
ste at smxy.org
Mon Mar 22 22:22:55 PST 2004
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 getting the keyboard
re-initialized, when you plug it back in - at least under
5.2.1-RELEASE-p3 - is to change
hint.atkbd.0.flags="0x1"
to
hint.atkbd.0.flags="0x0"
in /boot/device.hints and reboot. After that, you can plug and unplug to
your heart's content. I'm told this setting may have to be made in the
kernel, requiring a custom kernel, in 4.x releases.
-ste
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