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