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] .
