On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 09:14:11PM -0500, Jeremy Andrews wrote: > Does anyone have ideas why unplugging my old PS/2 mouse and plugging in a new > one would have caused my Linux system to reboot!? Nothing fancy in the change, > except that my old one was possessed, randomly veering around the screen at the > most inopportune times. Ode to dust and dog hair... ;^) P/S 2 isn't hot-pluggable :) I've done this a couple of times, and it always hangs. Amusingly enough I can wrench the floppy drive out of my old masquerading box downstairs, and it survives every time ;) john -- "If the software that a company produces isn't reliable, adding a bunch of 'Mother, may I' rules to the language and the code won't fix it." - Pete Becker - Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ IRC Channel: irc.openprojects.net / #kernelnewbies Web Page: http://www.kernelnewbies.org/
