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List:       kde
Subject:    Re: [kde] due to compositing,
From:       Jogchum Reitsma <j.reitsma () hccnet ! nl>
Date:       2009-08-17 19:38:58
Message-ID: 4A89B1D2.8060509 () hccnet ! nl
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Anne Wilson schreef:
> On Monday 17 August 2009 19:26:47 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>   
>>>>> 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.
>>>>         
>>> Interesting, because (some months back) I have been in the same situation
>>> and tried the SysRq 'magic keys', just in case, but without success.
>>>       
>> It must be enabled in the kernel configuration.  If the file
>> "/proc/sysrq-trigger" doesn't exist, you don't have it enabled.
>>     
>
> In that case I don't have it, and, presumably didn't have it in the distro I 
> was using at that time.  How common is it for this to be enabled?
>
> Anne
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Maybe this

http://www.linuxhowtos.org/Tips%20and%20Tricks/sysrq.htm

gives good info?

Jogchum

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