Magic sysrequest keys?

[Ron.W]

Hello people,

I wander whether sabayonlinux has compiled in support for the "magic sysrq keys" mentioned here: http://www.developertutorials.com/tutor ... page1.html

Which key would be the "magic" key? I didn't find any, but maybe I simply didn't find it since this is a notebook rather than a standard keyboard...

If it isn't in sabayon until now, I believe it would be a great idea to implement this feature, since it looks to me like something really useful for troubleshooting.

Ron.

[wolfden]

moved to proper forum

[Ron.W]

Thanks for moving this, Wolfden. So magic sysrq is actually not in Sabayon yet. I thought, I hadn't tried the correct keys on the notebook only.

If you are going to implement this feature in future, I think it would be great to make it optional via kerneloption ("cheatcode") in the bootloader-config at boottime (e.g. magicsysrq=on), so one can choose whether it is enabled or not by simply editing the line in menu.lst, since it is not always desirable to have these keys activated.

Ron.