On Wed, Jan 09, 2013 at 03:36:44AM +0100, Roland Eggner wrote: > 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
Holy crap. That works for me too. If only lenovo could have been bothered to document it properly. It's still a pitty to type and remmember the exact hold and release key sequences, but it's better than nothing. Thanks much. > 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 ;) Yeah, but my cat is not nearly smart enough for that :) Thanks for your help again, Marc -- "A mouse is a device used to point at the xterm you want to type in" - A.S.R. Microsoft is to operating systems .... .... what McDonalds is to gourmet cooking Home page: http://marc.merlins.org/ -- 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/