[PLUG] Rescan for PS2 Mouse?

Rick rdoyle16+plug at gmail.com
Fri Aug 16 23:41:45 UTC 2013


On Fri, 16 Aug 2013, King Beowulf wrote:

>
> > If I remember correctly, PS/2 ports are not "hot-plug" like USB or
> > Firewire. You really should NOT unplug/plug while the computer is powered
> > on.
>

+1

PS/2 are not "supposed" to be hot plugged/unplugged. It is likely that the
trouble you had was based in hardware (BIOS), not the operating system.
Some systems are/were more tolerant of doing this (probably a result of the
BIOS?).

-Rick



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