on Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 02:19:16PM -0800, Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Hall Stevenson wrote:
> > Actually, assuming he's looking at a console prompt or in an xterm, you
> > could probably find the right letters in the various text that's
> > visible.
>
> And if they're not, you can try t
Hall Stevenson wrote:
> Actually, assuming he's looking at a console prompt or in an xterm, you
> could probably find the right letters in the various text that's
> visible.
And if they're not, you can try to run ls, or w, or some other
commands, and once you find the letters a, s, c, and i, you'r
Interesting,
Built a new amd 700 for a friend here. Her keyboard just dies spontaniously.
It's also a dell... I'm gonna fix it with my big hammer later when I present
her a new Cheep generic keybaord.
On Thursday 15 March 2001 16:24, Barry Mathieu wrote:
> YES! Using this mouse copy & past
on Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 07:24:02PM -0500, Barry Mathieu ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> One of the responses concerning using a plam pilot to interface
> with my machine will need further investigation.
Essentially, you need a laplink (null) serial cable, appropriate
software for the palm (there's
YES! Using this mouse copy & paste technique allowed me to successfully
reboot, without the keyboard.
This keyboard has given me trouble in the past (Dell Quietkey). I am
a former casual RedHat user, and in the past I would have simply hit
the power key. This keyboard trouble happens infrequentl
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On Thursday 15 March 2001 17:03, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
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> have you really gotten focus back when replugging in a ps2 keyboard?
Works with my laptop, but not with my desktop computer.
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On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> have you really gotten focus back when replugging in a ps2 keyboard?
Yes, I have done it several times. I believe that if you run a ps/2
keyboard through a (physical) switch for connecting multiple systems to
one keyboard/mouse/monitor that this is
* Mathieu, Barry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 20010315 22:44 +0100:
> Is there anyway to reboot my machine simply by using the mouse? Is there
> any way
> to re-establish communication with the keyboard w/ only a mouse? Any ideas?
> I really don't want to push that power button.
Maybe with gpm? But I
On Thu 15 Mar 01, 3:41 PM, William T Wilson said:
> On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Mathieu, Barry wrote:
>
> > My keyboard is not responding (poof - dead), even the LED indicator
> > for caps lock doesn't illuminate. I have X running, w/ ICEWM. There
>
> If your keyboard has fallen out of the socket th
> heh. i've had this happen.
>
> if you're luck enough to have the letters "s", "u", either "h",
> "a", "l", "t" or "r", "e", "b", "o", t" and all the letters in your
> root password, you can cut and paste your way into a
> reboot. this has happened to me before, and worked.
That's quite creati
on Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 03:14:44PM -0500, Mathieu, Barry ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> Trouble.
>
> My keyboard is not responding (poof - dead), even the LED indicator
> for caps lock doesn't illuminate. I have X running, w/ ICEWM. There
> is a mouse menu that allows reboot, but only works if lo
heh. i've had this happen.
if you're luck enough to have the letters "s", "u", either "h", "a", "l",
"t" or "r", "e", "b", "o", t" and all the letters in your root password,
you can cut and paste your way into a reboot. this has happened to me
before, and worked.
can you ssh into your machine?
On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Mathieu, Barry wrote:
> My keyboard is not responding (poof - dead), even the LED indicator
> for caps lock doesn't illuminate. I have X running, w/ ICEWM. There
If your keyboard has fallen out of the socket then you can plug it back
in. It should work fine. (Well, if you
Trouble.
My keyboard is not responding (poof - dead), even the LED indicator for caps
lock doesn't
illuminate. I have X running, w/ ICEWM. There is a mouse menu that allows
reboot, but
only works if logged-in as root, which I am not. And, I am a bit of a Linux
newbie.
Is there anyway to reboo
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