On Tue, 5 Nov 2002, Jason Gilbert wrote: > On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 11:28:04AM +0100, Martin Stricker wrote: > > Jason Gilbert wrote: > > > > > I'm not sure if it's related, but I noticed a problem when plugging a > > > KVM in after the machine had booted (it's setup for serial console). > > > If the KVM was plugged in when the machine booted everything is fine. > > > I have not really investigated it though. > > > > This is the expected behavior if there was no keyboard/mouse plugged > > into the computer at bootup - it's not detected by BIOS and/or OS, so > > the resource is not used. > > In practice this is not true. When plugging the keyboard and display directly > into the machine after boot everything works fine. I'm not using a mouse. I > would not expect the PS/2 mouse to work, however I would expect the keyboard and > video to work. Whether or not it's good to be 'hotplugging' these devices is a > different issue. Not trying to start some kind of religious war but as a real world datapoint I have been hot plugging PS/2 keyboards and mice since the first ones came out years ago. Never had a problem. Same with video. In my experience 99% of the time you do not have to reboot for them to work. As far as KVM switches go I have a 4 port one here that works just fine, including the hot plugging of the KVM. Maybe I am just luckey but..... -- .............Tom "Nothing would please me more than being able to tdiehl@rogueind.com hire ten programmers and deluge the hobby market with good software." -- Bill Gates 1976 We are still waiting .... -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
