Re: unexplained keyboard crashes

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
18 Dec 1998 05:18:25 GMT

Followup to: <19981216224159.B16437@kg1.ping.de>
By author: Kurt Garloff <garloff@kg1.ping.de>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> On Wed, Dec 16, 1998 at 12:10:23PM +0000, Roeland Th. Jansen wrote:
> > resetting the keyboard (unplug/reconnect) doesn't work either -- the leds
> > flash once, as usual.
>
> Be careful when doing it with a PS2 connector. You might burn your PS2
> keyboard port. Really poor hardware design.
>

Actually, one of the requirements for the "Designed for W*nd*ws 9x"
logo is that the keyboard and mouse ports have current limiters so
they can be swapped at runtime.

-hpa

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