From: root@mauve.demon.co.uk
Message-Id: <200306011750.SAA21636@mauve.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: weird keyboard with 2.5.70
To: xombi@accessus.net
Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2003 18:50:08 +0100 (BST)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0306011003520.13639-100000@localhost.localdomain> from "xombi@accessus.net" at Jun 01, 2003 10:08:09 AM
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> 
> On 31 May 2003, Alan Cox wrote:
> > On Sad, 2003-05-31 at 17:44, Margit Schubert-While wrote:
> > > Errr, guys - you do know that PS2 is NOT hotplug and you
> > > may well end up hosing your mainboard ?
> >
> > For any vaguely modern machine you'll find thats not the case. If
> > I remember rightly the requirement for PS/2 to be hotplug safe was
> > added into the PC specs the vendors use about 1998
> 
> I have a Abit-KT7 (Socket A, wo/RAID) motherboard that dies if you unplug
> the keyboard, but not the mouse. IIRC that's a mid-to late 2000
> motherboard.

I have a 2001 model Socket A motherboard that will reboot after several
seconds about once every hundred keyboard plugs.

It usually works...

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