Lanny, You might want to look at this, for future reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key -Gordon On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 1:03 PM, Lanny Marcus <lmmailinglists at gmail.com> wrote: > Earlier, I was using GNOME and Firefox and the Mouse died. I had to > kill the power, to get the box going again, because it doesn't have a > reset switch; which is *not* an elegant way to get going. What key > combination would get me going or to a shell? CentOS 5, fully updated, > 32 bit. TIA! > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >