[Wolves] PC LOCK UP

[gary at walsall.uk.com]

I'm not 100% sure, but you should be able to shutdown your PC using your power button if you have a new(ish) motherboard.
If your bios is set to shutdown after holding the power button for 4 seconds, and your ACPI is set up correctly, and kernel supports it, Im sure there should be a way to do this.


Theres some info here, but I'm too lazy to read it.

http://www.au.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/downloads/files/acpid.txt

have fun,
Gary





fizzy <fizzyorguk at yahoo.com> wrote ..
>  --- Mo Awkati <mawkati at yahoo.co.uk> wrote: 
> > Hi
> hullo
> > 
> > Yet another question!!
> fire away...
> > 
> > If an application locks the keyboard and mouse, how
> > can I kill it to get the PC back without having to
> > reset the PC??
> 
> If X crashes, you have two options.  
> 
> 1) connect to your machine from another machine and
> kill X.  If your machines are networked you can ssh
> into your crashed machine and kill the process.
> 
> 2) Use the magic sys req keys, Peter Oliver will tell
> you all about these as all I know is they look very
> cool.  Not sure if this will need a kernel re-compile,
> perhaps Ron or another SuSE user can tell you if it's
> compiled into SuSE 9 standard kernel....
> > 
> > Mo
> 
> fizz
> 
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