Re: Use Joystick to reboot.
On 7 Aug, Brian K Servis wrote: I had thought of doing as you did, adding a shutdown menu option. I assume you are running as a regular user. How did you set it up so that 'you' could start the shutdown process? I user the super package (I guess you could use sudo as well). This is the line from /etc/super.tab : booten /sbin/shutdown -r now martinb and /usr/local/bin/booten is just: super booten Then I just add a menu option for /usr/local/bin/booten (in a submenu, so I don't hit it by mistake). Ciao, Martin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Use Joystick to reboot.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 7 Aug 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7 Aug, Brian K Servis wrote: activity. I still could move the pointer though. My only solution at the time was to push the reset button. If I had had a joystick driver active I could have started a clean shutdown which would have saved me some work when the system came back up with all kinds of disk errors due to the cold reboot. Me too. It happens, if I switch runlevels running X. The keyboard is locked. No switching to a VC possible, Alt + strg + Backspace didn't work either. This happens for me too. (I solved it then by grabbing together the characters for shutdown -r now from all running xterms and pasted them in a root shell. Then never tried to change runlevels running X) I'm glad someone else sees this problem. Is this a bug in: xserver-s3 xbase sysvinit somewhere else? Nils - -- \ /| Nils Rennebarth --* WINDOWS 42 *-- | Schillerstr. 61 / \| 37083 Göttingen | ++49-551-71626 Micro$oft's final answer | http://www.nus.de/~nils -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: noconv iQB1AwUBM+szP1ptA0IhBm0NAQGDYAL9H7jbzNdGgY1UpadptJ1muTc6LlzOPgvp ZTMi0N7TYkMuaC0KqydAjt3qADzqK8+WDRxkLbRmgwpluHs06Y4/JA1yTijKAgG4 oF5+zk0XrxG9ce0TN8inkTxycMqztHFc =bSwO -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Use Joystick to reboot.
On 6 Aug 1997, Linh Dang wrote: I remember having seen somewhere that you can use the joystick to make a clean reboot. That's handy when X freezes and your keyboard and mouse get stuck. Any info, pointer ? That happens in OS/2 but I would not expect to see this in Linux. A copule of times I had that problem on my laptop. It turns of the problem was that my mouse was using the same IRQ 12 as the modem. I used at-batch to get it to reboot after I noticed the problem is occuring after touching the mouse or trying to use the modem. So my suggestion is try to make sure there is no IRQ conflicts first - otherwise you should not need a joystick reboot. ~~~ D.J. Mashao, [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Use Joystick to reboot.
Daniel J. Mashao writes: On 6 Aug 1997, Linh Dang wrote: I remember having seen somewhere that you can use the joystick to make a clean reboot. That's handy when X freezes and your keyboard and mouse get stuck. Any info, pointer ? That happens in OS/2 but I would not expect to see this in Linux. A copule of times I had that problem on my laptop. It turns of the problem was that my mouse was using the same IRQ 12 as the modem. I used at-batch to get it to reboot after I noticed the problem is occuring after touching the mouse or trying to use the modem. So my suggestion is try to make sure there is no IRQ conflicts first - otherwise you should not need a joystick reboot. ~~~ D.J. Mashao, [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- I'll have to disagree with you. I have had Netscape 4.01b6(java related) and StarWriter both lock me out of keyboard or mouse button activity. I still could move the pointer though. My only solution at the time was to push the reset button. If I had had a joystick driver active I could have started a clean shutdown which would have saved me some work when the system came back up with all kinds of disk errors due to the cold reboot. my $.02 Brian -- Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Use Joystick to reboot.
On 7 Aug, Brian K Servis wrote: activity. I still could move the pointer though. My only solution at the time was to push the reset button. If I had had a joystick driver active I could have started a clean shutdown which would have saved me some work when the system came back up with all kinds of disk errors due to the cold reboot. Me too. It happens, if I switch runlevels running X. The keyboard is locked. No switching to a VC possible, Alt + strg + Backspace didn't work either. The mouse works perfectly as well as X. I could start apps through the mouse menues. After the first time, I added a shutdown option to my FVWM Mouse-Menus ... I am running X 3.3-3. Ciao, Martin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Use Joystick to reboot.
I remember having seen somewhere that you can use the joystick to make a clean reboot. That's handy when X freezes and your keyboard and mouse get stuck. Any info, pointer ? Thanx -- = Linh Dang Nortel Technology Member of Scientific StaffSpeech Recognition Software [EMAIL PROTECTED] = -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Use Joystick to reboot.
Linh Dang wrote: I remember having seen somewhere that you can use the joystick to make a cl= ean reboot. That's handy when X freezes and your keyboard and mouse get stuck. = Any info, pointer ? Did you try searching on sunsite or tsx-11? It's been a while since I last heard about that program. Anyway, you can grab joystick source package and modify included test program to do a system(telinit 6) when a button's pressed. And a sleep(5) between checks -- ugly, but it'll work. -- Dimitri emaziuk at curtin dot edu dot au Objects in the mirror appear further then they are (etched on a rear view mirror of a Mitsubishi Mirage) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
