Re: Use Joystick to reboot.

1997-08-08 Thread Nils Rennebarth
-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 clea

Re: Use Joystick to reboot.

1997-08-07 Thread Martin . Bialasinski
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 i

Re: Use Joystick to reboot.

1997-08-07 Thread Martin . Bialasinski
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 a

Re: Use Joystick to reboot.

1997-08-07 Thread Brian K Servis
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 expe

Re: Use Joystick to reboot.

1997-08-07 Thread Daniel J. Mashao
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

Re: Use Joystick to reboot.

1997-08-06 Thread Dima
>>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

Use Joystick to reboot.

1997-08-06 Thread Linh Dang
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