On Monday 18 January 2010 23:04:56 James Ausmus wrote: > And this is why it is a Very Good Thing to spread the word about the Magic > SysRq keys. Did <ctrl>-<alt>-<del> not do anything, or a single press of > the power button (which should send an ACPI shutdown signal, causing the > system to self-power-off)? >
Forgot to add this juicy bit to my last post: Very recent buyers of Lenovo laptops don't even *have* a SysRq key anymore. I reckon it won't be long before other makers follow suit. I can see Lenovo's point: there's probably less than 10,000 people in the whole world that ever used that key in the last 12 months and all of them are very au fait with Linux -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
