On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 10:56 AM, Pavel Machek <pa...@ucw.cz> wrote: > On Fri 2013-03-22 15:31:41, Marc MERLIN wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 09, 2013 at 03:36:44AM +0100, Roland Eggner wrote: >> > On 2013-01-08 Tuesday at 15:09 -0800 Marc MERLIN wrote: >> > > In its infinite wisdom, lenovo has removed the sysrq key on the latest >> > > thinkpads, and replaced it with a stupid ALT+FN+S key combination, which >> > > doesn't really work for doing sysrq from the console (nor do I know how >> > > the >> > > genius who did that intended for SYSRQ-S to work). >> > > http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/T400-T500-and-newer-T-series/T430-s-T530-Where-are-the-shortcut-function-keys-break-Pause-etc/ta-p/781749 >> > > >> > > I realize that one solution is to throw my laptop window at a suitable >> > > high >> > > floorand replace it with one from a vendor that doesn't randomly remove >> > > keys >> > > from the keyboard. >> > > That said, I was wondering if there were other solutions, especially >> > > considering that thinkpads used to be the better linux laptops. >> > >> > My Dell “Precision M4500” notebook suffers similar (same?) problem. So far >> > I could not find a solution better than this: e.g. Alt-Fn-SysRq-s >> > >> > press and hold Alt >> > press and hold Fn >> > press and leave F10|SysRq >> > leave Fn >> > press and leave s >> > leave Alt >> >> Just for the sake of the archives, turns out that on the lenovo T430 and T530 >> you should ignore the Lenovo documentation I quoted above, and you can >> indeed use the PrtSc key between Right Alt and Right Ctrl, that key works >> just fine for Sysrq. >> >> I have no idea why Lenovo felt they had to document some complicated >> alternate software sysrq with Fn+S > > Well... I feel resposible for sysrq stuff... I wanted it to be > non-intrusive. But it might have been bad choice - sysrq was not meant > to be used as a shift. > > Sometimes it works, sometimes it does not. Don't blame lenovo for > that. > > Maybe it should be modified to take sysrq and _then_ key? > > Or maybe we should use something like lshift+rshift+lalt+ralt+key? >
I vote for "something like". Some keyboards (such as my Thinkpad X230 with UK layout) have lshift, lalt, rshift, but no ralt. the ralt is replaced by AltGr. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/