Re: [Lcd4linux-devel] [patch] adds keypad support for Crystalfontz 635

[Mark E. <mj...@po...>]

On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 10:53 -0500, C. Maj wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 10:51:29PM +0100, Till Harbaum waxed:
> > But i have a very stupid question: What is this good for? Ok, i can increment
> > and decrement values, but is there some useful real life example?
> 
> I think it could provide for much more interactive displays
> like changing layouts, offering confirmation dialogs, menus,
> reboot, etc.  Potentially helpful stuff for rackmount machines.

There used to be a box (racked PC) called Cobolt. This had a small LCD
display and 4 buttons. With these 4 buttons you could...
Setup/provision the system - ie - provide its IP address and other
network settings, reboot or switch off the machine, look at various
settings - etc...

For my purpose - I want to be able to locally manage some rack-mounted
servers - look at various settings and be able to reboot or power down
the box. I'm under the assumption that "Pushing Buttons" can be detected
as events which can be used to trigger externally called programs on the
server?

-- 
  .  .     ___. .__      Posix Systems - Sth Africa.  e.164 VOIP ready
 /| /|       / /__       mj...@po...  -  Mark J Elkins, Cisco CCIE
/ |/ |ARK \_/ /__ LKINS  Tel: +27 12 807 0590  Cell: +27 82 601 0496