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From: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
To: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdlab.org>
Cc: Alan <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	crutcher+kernel@datastacks.com,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	paulus@au.ibm.com
Subject: Re: Magic SysRq +# in 2.4.9-ac/2.4.10-pre12
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 22:22:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010919222242.A3775@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3BA8C01D.79FBD7C3@osdlab.org>
In-Reply-To: <3BA8C01D.79FBD7C3@osdlab.org>; from rddunlap@osdlab.org on Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 08:56:13AM -0700

On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 08:56:13AM -0700, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
> (and maybe earlier...)
> 
> Simple problems grow...
> 
> Keith Owens has already noted one problem in sysrq.c (2.4.10-pre12).
> 
> Beginning:
> 
> I have an IBM model KB-9910 keyboard.  When I use
> Alt+SysRQ+number (number: 0...9) on it to change the
> console loglevel, only keys 5 and 6 have the desired
> effect.  I used showkey -s to view the scancodes from
> the other <number> keys, but showkey didn't display
> anything for them.  Any other suggestions?

Most likely the keyboard scanning matrix doesn't allow that combination.
Quite a large number of keyboards doesn't allow multiple keys pressed
(except for shift, ctrl, alt, which are separate) at once.

-- 
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs

  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-09-19 20:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-09-19 15:56 Magic SysRq +# in 2.4.9-ac/2.4.10-pre12 Randy.Dunlap
2001-09-19 16:30 ` Randy.Dunlap
2001-09-19 16:42 ` Alan Cox
2001-09-19 18:02   ` Randy.Dunlap
2001-09-19 17:31 ` Erik Mouw
2001-09-19 17:34   ` Randy.Dunlap
2001-09-19 17:50     ` Randy.Dunlap
2001-09-19 17:52     ` Erik Mouw
2001-09-19 20:22 ` Vojtech Pavlik [this message]
2001-09-21 20:29 ` Crutcher Dunnavant
2001-09-26 20:38   ` Pavel Machek
2001-10-03 15:08     ` Crutcher Dunnavant
2001-09-21 21:08 ` Crutcher Dunnavant
2001-09-21 21:41   ` [PATCH] Magic SysRq loglevel fix Crutcher Dunnavant
2001-09-22  1:25     ` Randy.Dunlap
2001-09-22  5:16       ` Crutcher Dunnavant
2001-09-21 21:42   ` Magic SysRq +# in 2.4.9-ac/2.4.10-pre12 Randy.Dunlap
2001-09-21 22:07     ` Crutcher Dunnavant

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