Mental on Tue, 12 Oct 1999 17:31:51 -0400 (EDT)


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Re: [Plug] alt-SysReq


Ok, I just tried it out. Works fine from the console, and as I suspected it 
doesnt work in X. 

On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Mental wrote:

> The help says:
> 
> If you say Y here, you will have some control over the system even
> if the system crashes for example during kernel debugging (e.g., you
> will be able to flush the buffer cache to disk, reboot the system
> immediately or dump some status information). This is accomplished
> by pressing various keys while holding SysRq (Alt+PrintScreen). The
> keys are documented in Documentation/sysrq.txt. Don't say Y unless
> you really know what this hack does.
> 
> 
> Seems pretty straight forward to me. I dont know that it'll work in X
> or not. X does wierd things to the keyboard input. I'd imagine it will. 
> I'll have to try it.
> 
> On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Darxus wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Has anybody figured out how to use alt-SysReq ?  How do I do it ?
> > 
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