On 2013-01-08 Tuesday at 15:09 -0800 Marc MERLIN wrote: > In its infinite wisdom, lenovo has removed the sysrq key on the latest > thinkpads, and replaced it with a stupid ALT+FN+S key combination, which > doesn't really work for doing sysrq from the console (nor do I know how the > genius who did that intended for SYSRQ-S to work). > http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/T400-T500-and-newer-T-series/T430-s-T530-Where-are-the-shortcut-function-keys-break-Pause-etc/ta-p/781749 > > I realize that one solution is to throw my laptop window at a suitable high > floorand replace it with one from a vendor that doesn't randomly remove keys > from the keyboard. > That said, I was wondering if there were other solutions, especially > considering that thinkpads used to be the better linux laptops.
My Dell “Precision M4500” notebook suffers similar (same?) problem. So far I could not find a solution better than this: e.g. Alt-Fn-SysRq-s press and hold Alt press and hold Fn press and leave F10|SysRq leave Fn press and leave s leave Alt Several months ago a LKML user claimed, his cat had managed to press Alt-Fn-SysRq-c on his Dell Latitude notebook with similar keyboard, and provided photos showing the kernel crash message ;) -- Roland -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
