lem with
> old KVM
> switches).
Must have been a different problem, just tried and the keyboard works fine.
But of course one can connect the "dongle" before rebooting. Dead keyboard
can force reboot as well, can't it?
> Of course, with USB keyboards this approach would work.
W
"dongle" can send data from the keyboard to a notebook. With luck two
wires would do (using parallel port for sampling data).
Anyway I wouldn't count on people's reaction when they see someone doing
something unusual.
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nate gracefully. But it would require changes
to kernel SAK handling I think - not sure if it's worth it, given other
threats.
Another idea: if the machines are ACPI-enabled and have "soft-power"
buttons, one can make use of acpid.
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> Ctrl-Alt-Backspace. So it would be good if the SAK also worked there which
> would require it to set a "sane" video mode.
I assume that one can notice that Ctrl-Alt-Backspace doesn't work,
and stop there. I think SAK/X11 video mode issue is possible to fix,
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r switching VTs?
I would investigate switchvt (or how is it named) too.
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to a machine with user
accounts. Not a kernel thing, though - Linux has termios locking
for 10+ yrs.
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can redefine key bindings as well. That's why SAK/reset is so important.
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