[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread] 

List:       kde
Subject:    Re: [kde] due to compositing,
From:       Anne Wilson <cannewilson () googlemail ! com>
Date:       2009-08-18 6:32:57
Message-ID: 200908180732.57760.cannewilson () googlemail ! com
[Download RAW message or body]

[Attachment #2 (multipart/signed)]


On Monday 17 August 2009 20:38:58 Jogchum Reitsma wrote:
> 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
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > ___________________________________________________
> > This message is from the kde mailing list.
> > Account management:  https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde.
> > Archives: http://lists.kde.org/.
> > More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
>
> Maybe this
>
> http://www.linuxhowtos.org/Tips%20and%20Tricks/sysrq.htm
>
> gives good info?
>
Thanks.  I've known about the 'magic keys' for years, but this is the first 
time I've seen anything about how to enable them.  Once, long ago, when I first 
heard of them, they worked 'out-of-the-box'.  Since then I've never been able 
to use them.

Anne
--
New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org
Just found a cool new feature?  Add it to UserBase

["signature.asc" (application/pgp-signature)]

___________________________________________________
This message is from the kde mailing list.
Account management:  https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde.
Archives: http://lists.kde.org/.
More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.

[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread]