On Sat, 31 Mar 2001, Ethan Benson wrote: >> After upgrading to kernel-image-2.2.19pre17-pmac, I can no longer use >> my right arrow key. It is not sending any key events at all, according >> to xev and showkey. The keys worked fine under a 2.2.18 kernel I >> compiled myself from kernel.org sources.
> i vaguely remember benh grumbling about this on irc a couple weeks > ago, iirc he finally figured out that the kernel decided that the > arrow key should be sysrq or something silly like that. is sysrq > turned on in this kernel? $ grep SYSRQ /boot/config-2.2.19pre17 CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ=y That would explain why my other kernel worked -- sysrq was off in that.