Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 11 Jan 2002 10:03:27 -0800 | From | J Sloan <> | Subject | Re: Simple local DOS |
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IIUC the magic sys req keys work even if the normal keyboard handling is hosed -
More than once when quake or rtcw appear to have hosed the console completely, and it appears "locked up", <ALT><SysRq> k has brought me back to the gdm login screen.
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jjs
Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:
>>Ctrl-ALT-F12 selects VT mode from a locked X-window, ALT-F1 gets you >>to the first VT, ALT-F2, next, etc. >>No problem at all. >> > >X can kill the keyboard completely, only way in was via remote. > >Regards, > Zwane Mwaikambo > > >- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in >the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
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