Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about the magic Sys Req keys

2011-06-13 Thread Dale
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Monday 13 June 2011 04:18:23 Dale wrote: So, my question is this. What kind of lock up could keep the magic keys from working? This is on my new amd64 machine. everything that kills the interrupt handler. everything that prevents the kernel from acti

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about the magic Sys Req keys

2011-06-13 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Monday 13 June 2011 04:18:23 Dale wrote: > So, my question is this. What kind of lock up could keep the magic keys > from working? This is on my new amd64 machine. everything that kills the interrupt handler. everything that prevents the kernel from acting on interrupts it received every

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about the magic Sys Req keys

2011-06-13 Thread JDM
I used to get this when using ati-drivers (radeon). This has not happened for a good year though. Sysreq not responsive but you could ssh into machine. Ssh maybe worth a try. If you do not have radeon then the advise is close to meaningless. JDM -Original Message- From: Dale Date: Mon

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about the magic Sys Req keys

2011-06-13 Thread meino . cramer
Dale [11-06-13 11:24]: > Howdy, > > I just had a hard lock up. I had a random reboot the other day while I > was sleeping as well. This was with gentoo-sources 2.6.39. I'm not > sure what caused the one the other day but I had several days of > uptime. The one I just had was also after a f