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List:       kde
Subject:    Re: [kde] due to compositing,
From:       Nikos Chantziaras <realnc () arcor ! de>
Date:       2009-08-17 16:04:52
Message-ID: h6bv33$j6n$1 () ger ! gmane ! org
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On 08/17/2009 06:55 PM, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Monday 17 August 2009 15:43:39 Guido Pinkernell wrote:
>>> How about
>>> "Raising Elephants"?:
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key#.22Raising_Elephants.22_mnem
>>> on ic_device
>>
>> Yes. Thanks a lot, Dotan. I didn't know about this. Very useful indeed!
>
> So how do you use that, if, as you say, the keyboard doesn't respond?

SysRq is hardwired into the kernel.  If the kernel didn't panic, SysRq 
still works even if X stopped processing keyboard events.  And from the 
sound of it, the kernel did not panic in this case since the mouse still 
moves, so the kernel must be running.

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