Public bug reported:
After reading about the "Magic SysRq key" combinations, I have attempted
to use them several times when my laptop (a Dell XPS M1210) has crashed
for various reasons, and they have never worked. The specific sequences
I've tried were REISUB and RSEIUB, and neither had any visible effect.
This may have something to do with the keyboard layout. It's more or
less a normal QWERTY, but several keys share space, including SysRq,
which is on F11. To switch between them there is a Fn key which must be
pressed. So in theory, the full key combo would actually be
Alt+Fn+F11/SysRq+R and so on. But this doesn't seem to work. I've also
tried it without the Fn key, and that doesn't seem to work either. I
don't have a USB keyboard available, so I don't know if it works with
another keyboard attached.
If there's any other useful information I can give you, let me know.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
Package: linux-image-2.6.27-11-generic 2.6.27-11.23
ProcCmdLine: root=UUID=2f1c73c2-68b9-40b2-9ad7-0899f0df580b ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.27-11.23-generic
SourcePackage: linux
** Affects: linux (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: apport-bug
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"Magic SysRq keys" don't work on laptop (Dell XPS M1210)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/315503
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