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[hackmiester (Hunter Fuller)]

On 22 September 2006, at 09:24, Greg Groth wrote:

> Mario Lobo wrote:
>> On Friday 22 September 2006 02:33, Bill Moran wrote:
>>> jekillen <jekillen at prodigy.net> 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
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hackmiester (Hunter Fuller)

<svinx> yknow when you go to a party, and everyones hooked up except  
one guy and one girl
<svinx> and so they look at each other like.. do we have to?
<svinx> intel & nvidia must be lookin at each other like that right now


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