On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 13:50:36 -0800, James Ausmus wrote: > > Very recent buyers of Lenovo laptops don't even *have* a SysRq key > > anymore. I > > reckon it won't be long before other makers follow suit. I can see > > Lenovo's point: there's probably less than 10,000 people in the whole > > world that ever > > used that key in the last 12 months and all of them are very au fait > > with Linux > > > > > Yuck - really? Not even as an unlabeled Alt function of a Print Screen > button?
Shouldn't even need Alt, SysRq is PrtScn. > Sounds like a new kernel patch needs to be introduced, which allows you > to select an alternative to the SysRq key for the magic commands... > <sigh> Stupid HW manufacturers... That's been possible for years. I remember doing something, but not the details, to use another key for this on my PPC iBook. -- Neil Bothwick "Ubuntu" is an ancient African word, meaning "I can't configure Slackware".
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