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IPAC USB or PS2
_Iz-:
The method I discussed involved 1 mouse hack and using a switch to feed it with input from 2 seperate devices depending on the switch position. This would not require hotswapping the mouse as it is always connected and all devices have power at all times. You're just allowing the selection of input to feed the mouse pcb. With this method the computer doesn't have any idea anything has changed! No risk of frying the port.
Check this writeup. It's basically the same as I have done.
http://www.oscarcontrols.com/DPDTswitch.shtml
rampy:
Just to make a silly point:
You most likely can hot swap in/out/off ps/2 keyboards while the machine is on (without hardware damage)... but windoze usually gets pissed and will make you reboot anyways =P
at least that's been my experience.
Rampy
RandyT:
--- Quote from: rampy on May 30, 2003, 04:56:30 pm ---Just to make a silly point:
You most likely can hot swap in/out/off ps/2 keyboards while the machine is on (without hardware damage)... but windoze usually gets pissed and will make you reboot anyways =P
at least that's been my experience.
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Hey Rampy!
How do I disagree with you without ticking you off :) ?
Seriously though, I haven't found this to be the case. Mouse? Yes, but not the keyboard. I routinely hot swap keyboards and encoders half a dozen times at a sitting, and I don't have to reboot.
The only thing that might get weird is the LED lock indicators. They could possibly get out of sync.
But it could also just be your/my keyboard :)
RandyT
planetjay:
FYI. I have been a computer tech since before the PS/2 connector. ;) In all my years only one fuse has ever blown. And that one was from a keyboard that someone else had bent a pin on, and that pin went across 5v and GND. And I "fixed" that MB.
TheManuel:
--- Quote from: planetjay on May 31, 2003, 02:42:11 am ---FYI. I have been a computer tech since before the PS/2 connector. ;) In all my years only one fuse has ever blown. And that one was from a keyboard that someone else had bent a pin on, and that pin went across 5v and GND. And I "fixed" that MB.
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That's good news.
Does your comment apply to PS/2 in general including mice?