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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Configurable Magic Sysrq
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
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