no SysRq key

[Bruce Marshall]

On Saturday 12 August 2006 17:45, Jorge Almeida wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Aug 2006, Bruce Marshall wrote:
> > Well let me tell you, it works here.....   I was just using showkey to
> > try and get you the scancodes I am seeing, and I went through the
> > sequence:
> >
> > alt-sysrq-s
> > alt-sysrq-u
> > alt-sysrq-b
> >
> > and even with showkey looking at the sequences, I got a reboot out of it.
> >
> > I assume you are using the above sequence.  Should work.
>
> Well, it works here too, today! Maybe I did something wrong yesterday.
> I tried alt-sysrq-k and it also worked. Only alt-sysrq-h appears to do
> nothing. (No, it works on a vt, not on X!)
> showkey -s keeps sending the same output as in my first message, quite
> different from what expected from the documentation.
> Could you check the output of showkey -s for the SysRq key? I mean this
> key _only_, not alt-sysrq-whatever!
> Things seem OK, and I would feel confortable with it if only I hadn't
> read the documentation!
>
> Thanks.


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