Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 31 Oct 2004 20:44:57 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Configurable Magic Sysrq |
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Hi!
> > > I know about a few people who would like to use some functionality of > > > the Magic Sysrq but don't want to enable all the functions it provides. > > > So I wrote a patch which should allow them to do so. It allows to > > > configure available functions of Sysrq via /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq (the > > > interface is backward compatible). If you think it's useful then use it :) > > > Andrew, do you think it can go into mainline or it's just an overdesign? > > > > Actually, there's one more thing that wories me... Original choice of > > PC hotkey (alt-sysrq-key) works *very* badly on many laptop > > keyboards. Like sysrq is only recognized with fn, but key is not > > recognized when you hold fn => you have no chance to use magic sysrq. > > > > Actually if I understand it correctly it is Alt-PrtScrn-key - just let go > of your "Fn" key and I think it will work fine. At least it does on my > laptop.
Okay, it looks like I can actually type it on all notebooks here if I try hard enough. On HP machines, the trick is alt,fn,sysrq,releasealtandfn,key. Ouch.
The thing that confused me was some SuSE script redirecting messages to other tty, so I saw nothing after magic-9, and assumed I did not press it correctly. Pavel -- People were complaining that M$ turns users into beta-testers... ...jr ghea gurz vagb qrirybcref, naq gurl frrz gb yvxr vg gung jnl! - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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