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On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 13:50:36 -0800, James Ausmus wrote: |
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> > Very recent buyers of Lenovo laptops don't even *have* a SysRq key |
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> > anymore. I |
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> > reckon it won't be long before other makers follow suit. I can see |
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> > Lenovo's point: there's probably less than 10,000 people in the whole |
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> > world that ever |
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> > used that key in the last 12 months and all of them are very au fait |
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> > with Linux |
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> Yuck - really? Not even as an unlabeled Alt function of a Print Screen |
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> button? |
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Shouldn't even need Alt, SysRq is PrtScn. |
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> Sounds like a new kernel patch needs to be introduced, which allows you |
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> to select an alternative to the SysRq key for the magic commands... |
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> <sigh> Stupid HW manufacturers... |
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That's been possible for years. I remember doing something, but not the |
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details, to use another key for this on my PPC iBook. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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"Ubuntu" is an ancient African word, meaning "I can't configure |
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Slackware". |
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