no SysRq key

[Bruce Marshall]

On Saturday 12 August 2006 13:47, Jorge Almeida wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Aug 2006, Bruce Marshall wrote:
> > Can I ask what you are trying to use it for?   I use the sysrq key quite
> > a bit (magic key reboot sequence) and have never had any problem with
> > it...   and recompiling isn't necessary.   (with SuSE anyway)
>
> For emergencies. My system had a hard lockup when trying GoogleEarth,
> and I had to reboot by pressing the button. It would be better to try to
> kill the X server with the k-command, or sync+unmount+reboot...
> Recompiling was necessary because I run gentoo, and the kernel didn't
> have support for SysRq (for example, my kernel doesn't even support paralel
> port, for which I have no use). But that was the easy part...
> I just have no idea of how to use setkeycodes to make the kernel
> recognize my key. The documentation quoted in my message is simply not
> enough--a complete example would have made all the difference.
>
> I suppose not many people have this problem (although my keyboard is
> mainstream, I think). Already tried the gentoo list...

I'm using the same keyboard.

What makes you think that you need to set keycodes?  If it doesn't work, you 
might look for other places where the keys get interecepted.