Re: [gentoo-user] How cam I get system to recognize MagicSysReq while in X gui?

2007-12-21 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 20 December 2007 17:17:15 Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: You have to emerge sys-power/acpid, not sys-power/acpi. Ah, yes, of course. Thanks. -- Rgds Peter -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] How cam I get system to recognize MagicSysReq while in X gui?

2007-12-20 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 19 December 2007 22:58:25 Walter Dnes wrote: This is a wonderful idea, and I have it implemented now. Sounds pretty good to me too! emerge acpi Doing that didn't give me this file: change the uncommented lines in /etc/acpi/events/default to read event=.* action=chvt 1 What

Re: [gentoo-user] How cam I get system to recognize MagicSysReq while in X gui?

2007-12-20 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Thursday 20 December 2007, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Wednesday 19 December 2007 22:58:25 Walter Dnes wrote: This is a wonderful idea, and I have it implemented now. Sounds pretty good to me too! emerge acpi Doing that didn't give me this file: change the uncommented lines in

Re: [gentoo-user] How cam I get system to recognize MagicSysReq while in X gui?

2007-12-20 Thread Boris Fersing
On Dec 18, 2007 3:41 AM, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 05:53:18 +0100, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: the 'best' sequence is e-i-u-b (u = remount ro also syncs.. and leaves the fs in a clean state). To get the keyboard back from X try K (to sack X) or R (to pry

Re: [gentoo-user] How cam I get system to recognize MagicSysReq while in X gui?

2007-12-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 12:26:55 -0500, Boris Fersing wrote: If you can SSH into the machine, you can also do it with echo u /proc/sysrq-trigger echo b /proc/sysrq-trigger Do not use e or i this way as they will kill sshd. Or just type 'reboot' (or anything else you want to do) ?

Re: [gentoo-user] How cam I get system to recognize MagicSysReq while in X gui?

2007-12-19 Thread Walter Dnes
On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 05:53:18AM +0100, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote Another thing you can try: add something you want to be done (like switching to a vt or a certain sysrq-key) to your acpid config and let acpid run. If the keyboard hangs, just push the power button ... for example:

Re: [gentoo-user] How cam I get system to recognize MagicSysReq while in X gui?

2007-12-19 Thread Walter Dnes
Aaaargh, a typo in my instructions On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 05:58:25PM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote rc-update add default acpid (to automatically start acpid at future bootups) Should have read... rc-update add acpid default -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm not repeating myself I'm an X

Re: [gentoo-user] How cam I get system to recognize MagicSysReq while in X gui?

2007-12-19 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Mittwoch, 19. Dezember 2007, Walter Dnes wrote: On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 05:53:18AM +0100, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote Another thing you can try: add something you want to be done (like switching to a vt or a certain sysrq-key) to your acpid config and let acpid run. If the keyboard

Re: [gentoo-user] How cam I get system to recognize MagicSysReq while in X gui?

2007-12-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 05:53:18 +0100, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: the 'best' sequence is e-i-u-b (u = remount ro also syncs.. and leaves the fs in a clean state). To get the keyboard back from X try K (to sack X) or R (to pry it out of X cold, dead fingers). If you can SSH into the machine,

[gentoo-user] How cam I get system to recognize MagicSysReq while in X gui?

2007-12-17 Thread Walter Dnes
I've figured out how to force a hard lockup on my system, by trying to log on to my ADSL service when the modem is switched off. Yeah, I know... Patient: Doctor, it hurts when I do that. Doctor: In that case... *DON'T DO THAT*. During one such lockup, I discovered that Magic SysRq doesn't

Re: [gentoo-user] How cam I get system to recognize MagicSysReq while in X gui?

2007-12-17 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Dienstag, 18. Dezember 2007, Walter Dnes wrote: I've figured out how to force a hard lockup on my system, by trying to log on to my ADSL service when the modem is switched off. Yeah, I know... Patient: Doctor, it hurts when I do that. Doctor: In that case... *DON'T DO THAT*. During