On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 12:40 AM, Germán Póo-Caamaño <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 2011-09-02 at 00:18 +0530, Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: >> On my laptop, I encounter enough hard lockups while testing software >> that the long-press behaviour of the power button is essential for me. >> I don't want to have to flip my machine over and take out the battery >> everytime. For all I know, doing that repeatedly might even damage the >> device. > > In the worst case, you still can use the Magic SysRq key. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key >
They often don't work in case of kernel lockups, or Xorg problems (which often lockup the kernel). They've worked maybe half the time I've had a system lockup. -- ~Nirbheek Chauhan Gentoo GNOME+Mozilla Team _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
