Hi John, Cheers for your speedy response. Funnily enough I was on that wiki page just last night, as I was looking at adding it as a mapping in my xmodmap, but I'm not sure what to map it to - I had hoped Ctrl-Alt-Del would have done it, so added the following:
keycode 70 = Control_L Alt_L Delete The power button on the remote does a Ctrl-F4, keycode 70 is the F4 part of that, and it works fine if I remap it to kp_subract (i.e. volume down), for instance, but does nothing with the mapping above. I don't think the Ctrl-Alt-Del is sysrq thingy is setup on my machine, as I vnc'd in and tried that, along with a bunch of other random key combinations to see if I could get it to reboot, and no joy. Also via VNC, I've tried all manner of Alt-SysRq-Shift-b, Alt-SysRq-b, adding in Ctrl, etc., but no joy there either... Oh, but on a positive note, after a bit of permission fiddling, the following does do a reboot: echo b > /proc/sysrq-trigger This would suggest the sysrq stuff works alright, I just need to work out how to send the signal from the keyboard/remote. Once again, thanks so much for any help regarding this - we're watching more and more FLVs on Freevo these days, and my gf is getting fed up when it is her turn to walk over to the tv and reboot the box. :) Cheers Ronan Nothing is true; Everything is permissible... ----- Original Message ---- From: John Molohan <john.molo...@gcd.ie> To: freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: Bill Burroughs <djmatu...@yahoo.com> Sent: Sat, 11 September, 2010 3:39:37 AM Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] Restarting from an MCE remote when mplayer freezes On 11/09/2010 15:20, Bill Burroughs wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm hoping this is an easy one - some FLV files downloaded from youpube make > mplayer freeze on me. The only way to fix it is a reboot (i.e. pressing the > power button on the front of the machine to get xubuntu to shut down, then >after > 20-30 secs, press it again to start up). Ouch. > I'm hoping I can do the same thing > from my remote, which is a standard MCE remote - i.e. it just sends keyboards > signals. I've tried getting it to send Ctrl-Alt-Del (and tried the same from a > proper keyboard) and that didn't work. I'm guessing its an OS thing I need to > work on, but any guidance greatly appreciated. :) > > > Cheers > Ronan Can you map the magic Sysreq keys? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key John ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
