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.
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D.J. Mashao, mashaodj@sunserver.engin.brown.edu
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