linux doesnt need ctrl alt del?? ha!

[Timothy A. Seufert]

At 12:12 PM -0500 4/1/02, Christopher Murtagh wrote:
>On Sun, 31 Mar 2002, Timothy A. Seufert wrote:
>>ADB Macs are one of the few systems with true hardware reset from the
>>keyboard.
>
>  I suspect that this is the same for the iBooks as well. ctrl-cmd-power
>will force a hard reset of the machine, even before the bootloader has
>loaded, so it isn't controlled via software. Also, if you are compiling a
>kernel for an iBook2 and you actually want to use the keyboard on it, you
>need to compile with ADB support (found that out the hard way).

Yep.  The PowerBooks and iBooks actually still use ADB keyboards and 
trackpads even though they don't provide an external ADB port.

-- 
Tim Seufert