Paul Abrahams wrote:
There's a feature in recent kernels called Magic Sysreq that assigns particular meanings to various Alt-SysReq-x key combinations. For example, Alt-SysReq-B forces an immediate reboot and Alt-SysReq-S syncs your file systems.
I have this working with a stock (non-Suse) 2.2.18 kernel on a system upgraded from SuSE 6.3 to SuSE 7.1. I recompiled the kernel myself and set the configuration options. Is it possible to make this feature available (on my other system) without getting the kernel sources and recompiling them?
No, you'll need to recompile the kernel. Magic SysReq is primarily for kernel hackers doing debugging, etc. (or rather, that's where I've most frequently seen it). I'm not sure it's that recent a feature, as it's available in my 2.2.5 kernel... Bye, Chris -- __ _ -o)/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ Chris Reeves /\\ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / ICQ# 22219005 _\_v __/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\