I crashed Linux

[Anthony J. Gabrielson]

If you get in there with a meter you can probably find the fuse you blew.
I used to work at Dec, and sometimes when a board died (and was out of
production) you may try and fix it.  My supervisor replaced a Dec fuse on
on board with a pico fuse and it worked like a champ afterwoods.  Still
wouldn't recomend hot pluging a ps 2 port.  

Anthony

On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Brian J. Conway wrote:

> > Too bad the keyboard and mouse cables never have those little  screws
> > like  the  monitor  has  that  prevents fallout.  Of course, the real
> > idiocy here is that plugging the mouse back in didn't make  it  start
> > working again. I'd guess that's probably a hardward idiocy, though it
> > is probably exacerbated by some matching software idiocy.
> 
> True, unfortunately, your generic PS/2 port is NOT hot-pluggable.  Some
> systems seem to handle it fine and keep on chugging, on the other hand,
> I've destroyed a motherboard (maybe two) that didn't like having a PS/2
> cable plugged in while the power was on.  Damn shame.
> 
> -b
> 
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