From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755708Ab3AHXJz (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jan 2013 18:09:55 -0500 Received: from magic.merlins.org ([209.81.13.136]:38576 "EHLO mail1.merlins.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754267Ab3AHXJy (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jan 2013 18:09:54 -0500 Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2013 15:09:54 -0800 From: Marc MERLIN To: Linux Kernel mailing List Subject: Supporting SYSRQ on broken laptops like the thinkpad T530 Message-ID: <20130108230954.GN2044@merlins.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline X-Sysadmin: BOFH X-URL: http://marc.merlins.org/ X-Operating-System: Proudly running Linux 3.1.5-core2-volpreempt-noide-hm64-20111218/Debian squeeze/sid X-Mailer: Some Outlooks can't quote properly without this header User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: marc@merlins.org Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. Thanks, 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/