On Fri, 10 May 2002 18:44, Alessandro Speranza wrote: > Some days ago, some of you sugested that I installed acpid on my presario > 700. I did, and yesterday I was trying to use, but I didn't quite > manage. I think I have to tell linux which one is the power button, in > order for acpid to process the script and power off, just pressing it. In > fact I wouldn't normally need it, but my computer has crashed lately a > couple of times (or better it froze, I don't know if it crashed, because I > couldn do anything with it) with just xscreensaver on. Two questions then:
If what you want is a way to recover your machine when an invasive program like an X server hangs then the Secure Attention Keypress may be a better solution. I have the following in my init scripts: echo "control alt keycode 107 = SAK " | loadkeys That makes CTRL-ALT-END be the SAK key-press. Pressing it tells the kernel to send signal 9 to every process on the current virtual console. It works well for me when I have X crash (which hasn't happened in 4.1.x as far as I recall). -- If you send email to me or to a mailing list that I use which has >4 lines of legalistic junk at the end then you are specifically authorizing me to do whatever I wish with the message and all other messages from your domain, by posting the message you agree that your long legalistic sig is void. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
