Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about the magic Sys Req keys

[Dale]

Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> On Monday 13 June 2011 04:18:23 Dale wrote:
>
>
>> So, my question is this.  What kind of lock up could keep the magic keys
>> from working?  This is on my new amd64 machine.
>>
> everything that kills the interrupt handler.
>
> everything that prevents the kernel from acting on interrupts it received
>
> everything that locks up the CPU
>
>

Thanks for all the replies.  It appears I am on the right track.  I most 
likely have a bad kernel.  It's been a while since I had one of those.  
I guess one has to get through every once in a while.

Oh, I have a nvidia card.

Thanks

Dale

:-)  :-)