Magic Sysreg key problems.

[Aaron Konstam]

On Mon, 2012-08-20 at 13:26 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote:
> On 08/20/2012 01:24 PM, Aaron Konstam uttered this comment:
> > On Mon, 2012-08-20 at 13:05 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote:
> >> On 08/20/2012 12:55 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> >>> It is hard to know where to start with the problems with the use of the
> >>> SysReg key.. Since acording to the Wikipedia notes in order to get these
> >>> Magic SysReg features to work you have tp add the Ctrl button. So to
> >>> reboot you would have to use the Ctrl+Alt+SysReg+ b button. On my
> >>> workstation Keyboard this is nearly impossible to do because of the
> >>> position of the SysReg key in the upper right corner of the keyboard.
> >>> On my laptop where I can hit the keys the function fails to work.
> >>> Without the Ctrl all you get is screen shots which I do get.
> >>>
> >>> With the alternate approach  of:
> >>> echo key > /proc/sysreq-trigger the reboot works but I can't detect
> >>> anything else working.
> >>>
> >>> So how does one use these magic keys ?
> >>>
> >>
> >> I can't speak for anybody else, but when I've experimented with it, I
> >> used both hands.
> >
> > Ok, it can be reached when you use both hands but it still does not work
> > for me. Does it matter which Ctrl key you use?
> 
> It shouldn't, but it's not "CTRL", it's "ALT". ALT-SYSRQ-commandkey
> 
> > Just to be clear, in /etc/sysctl.conf I changed: kernel.sysrq to 1 from
> > 0.
> 
> Did you "sysctl -p" or reboot after doing that?
> -
yes I did.
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