Re: Reboot only w/ mouse - SOLVED
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 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 infrequently enough that I haven't really persued solving the problem. Well, I ordered a Happy Hacking Lite 2 keyboard today. If the new keyboard works flawlessly, than I will know the source of this trouble. -- Jaye Inabnit\ARS ke6sls/TELE: USA-707-442-6579\/A GNU-Debian linux user Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WEB: http://www.qsl.net/ke6sls ICQ: 12741145 If it's stupid, but works, it ain't stupid. SHOUT JUST FOR FUN. Free software, in a free world, for a free spirit. Support freedom!
Re: Reboot only w/ mouse - SOLVED
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 infrequently enough that I haven't really persued solving the problem. Well, I ordered a Happy Hacking Lite 2 keyboard today. If the new keyboard works flawlessly, than I will know the source of this trouble. Since installing Debian about two weeks ago, I have subscribed to this list and I have tremendously benefited from the information. So far, learning Debian has gone very well, and yes, it is actually exciting. One of the responses concerning using a plam pilot to interface with my machine will need further investigation. Thanks for helping! Barry On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 12:52:35PM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: 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? that would be easiest of all. pete On Thu 15 Mar 01, 3:14 PM, Mathieu, Barry said: 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 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. Sigh, Barry -- Coffee... I've conquered the Borg on coffee! [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Kathryn Janeway on the virtues of coffee www.dirac.org/p -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Reboot only w/ mouse - SOLVED
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 a VT100 emulation available from one of the Palm download sites), and to be running a getty on your serial port. With this, you can cable in the Palm as needed. If you want to use this method, you pretty much have to dedicate the port to the getty. I don't think you can do other stuff (serial devices, Palm synch) over it. That's the downside. Network is a preferred solution. -- Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.comhttp://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of Gestalt don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org pgp1LBPcO2I9b.pgp Description: PGP signature
