Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 19 Sep 2001 22:22:42 +0200 | From | Vojtech Pavlik <> | Subject | Re: Magic SysRq +# in 2.4.9-ac/2.4.10-pre12 |
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On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 08:56:13AM -0700, Randy.Dunlap wrote: > (and maybe earlier...) > > Simple problems grow... > > Keith Owens has already noted one problem in sysrq.c (2.4.10-pre12). > > Beginning: > > I have an IBM model KB-9910 keyboard. When I use > Alt+SysRQ+number (number: 0...9) on it to change the > console loglevel, only keys 5 and 6 have the desired > effect. I used showkey -s to view the scancodes from > the other <number> keys, but showkey didn't display > anything for them. Any other suggestions?
Most likely the keyboard scanning matrix doesn't allow that combination. Quite a large number of keyboards doesn't allow multiple keys pressed (except for shift, ctrl, alt, which are separate) at once.
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