Neeum Zawan <m.n### [at] ieeeorg> wrote:
> On 08/02/09 09:30, Warp wrote:
> > Neeum Zawan<m.n### [at] ieeeorg>  wrote:
> >>          I'm not understanding why.
> >
> >>          I've tried this on Linux on my office machine, and it worked just fine.
> >
> >    If I unplug and re-plug my PS/2 keyboard, it won't work, neither in Linux
> > nor in Windows. I have to reboot.

>         Just tried it right now (30s unplugged). Plugged it back in. Works 
> fine. Could this be a kernel thing? Perhaps my kernel is more recent? 
> dmesg doesn't show anything...

>         OK. Weird. I just unplugged again and replugged it in within 2-3 
> seconds, and the keyboard didn't work. I unplugged it and waited over 45 
> seconds, and plugged it back in. It works now. No reboot, no reloading of X.

  According to wikipedia PS/2 is not designed to be hot-swappable, and
whether it will work after a hot-swap depends on the hardware and software.
It even warns that on older PCs hot-swapping a PS/2 device might even damage
the circuits.

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                                                          - Warp

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