Re: Kernel 2.4.0-test7 halt when mouse plugged in

From: Horst von Brand (vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl)
Date: Fri Aug 25 2000 - 19:23:03 EST

Next message: Andries Brouwer: "Re: ide20000805 partition table detection error w/ Via 82C586"
Previous message: Matthew Kirkwood: "Re: TCP denied by Cisco PIX (2.4.0-test7)"
Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]

Eric Weigle <ehw@lanl.gov> said:

[...]

> The problem: When the mouse (standard PS/2 2-button) is plugged in, the
> machine dies.

Lucky you it has just crashed the machine for now: This is one of the many
ways available to permanently damage your motherboard. AFAIK, only serial
devices are safe to (un)plug with the machine turned on. Somebody killed a
(then very expensive) i386, a printer and the disks by plugging the (turned
on) printer to the (running) machine. The monitor survived, and that was
it.

-- Horst von Brand vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl Casilla 9G, Vin~a del Mar, Chile +56 32 672616

- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Next message: Andries Brouwer: "Re: ide20000805 partition table detection error w/ Via 82C586"
Previous message: Matthew Kirkwood: "Re: TCP denied by Cisco PIX (2.4.0-test7)"
Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]

This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Thu Aug 31 2000 - 21:00:17 EST