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From: Thornton Prime <theoszi@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: forcing a reboot
Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 16:03:45 -0800
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> "ALT + Print Screen"
> 
>  does nothing on three of my linux o/s computers.

If it is not built into your kernel, it won't work.

If it is, you need to enable it with a sysctl -w kernel.sysrq=1.

You then need to use a magic key combination of
[ALT]+[PrintScrn]+<KEY>, where <KEY> is one of 0-8beikmoprstu. Use 'h'
to get help.

thornton