From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 19 Sep 2001 16:22:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 19 Sep 2001 16:22:26 -0400 Received: from mail.pha.ha-vel.cz ([195.39.72.3]:10249 "HELO mail.pha.ha-vel.cz") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Wed, 19 Sep 2001 16:22:24 -0400 Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 22:22:42 +0200 From: Vojtech Pavlik To: "Randy.Dunlap" Cc: Alan , crutcher+kernel@datastacks.com, lkml , paulus@au.ibm.com Subject: Re: Magic SysRq +# in 2.4.9-ac/2.4.10-pre12 Message-ID: <20010919222242.A3775@suse.cz> In-Reply-To: <3BA8C01D.79FBD7C3@osdlab.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3BA8C01D.79FBD7C3@osdlab.org>; from rddunlap@osdlab.org on Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 08:56:13AM -0700 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 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