Re: [Sheflug] Odd Problem

[Ted <ted [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 26 January 2005 4:28 pm, Alex Hudson wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 16:12 +0000, Ted wrote:
> > I cannot do this as there is no k/board response..
>
> Are you saying you think it won't work, or have you actually tried
> it?? :)
>
> Here's why: the SysRq response is directly interpreted by the kernel. If
> it's just a piece of software locking up (and X in particular can do a
> very good impression of a machine that has hung), it will still get
> through, even if they keyboard is otherwise "unresponsive". I believe it
> causes an interrupt in a similar manner to Ctrl-Alt-Delete. So, if you
> haven't tried it, I would.
>
> You say you get mouse movement; that sounds like Linux probably hasn't
> hung, and even more reason that the SysRq stuff would work.


Just tried it and no response from the keyboard or the mouse.
Also turned acpi off  as I googled for the problem and this was advised
this also failed....I think it must be 2.6 kernel related as 2.4 does not as 
yet show the same symptoms...

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Regards
  Ted Wager
   Using Libranet Linux

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