On Saturday 15 November 2008 02:50:07 am Paul M Foster wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 01:09:35AM -0500, Eben King wrote:
> > On Sat, 15 Nov 2008, Paul M Foster wrote:
>
........<snip a bunch>,,,,,,,
> > Look into the "magic sysrq key". Maybe it's enabled in your kernel.
>
> Yeah, I tried those as well. I dumped a webpage about sysrq into my docs
> directory, so I'd have it. But it doesn't appear to work. However, I
> haven't checked to see if sysrq is enabled on her box.
>
> I checked, and on my box at least (don't know about Nancy's)
> Ctrl-Alt-Bksp is disabled. I kept hitting that combination accidentally
> and killing the X server. How can you possibly "accidentally" hit that
> key combination? Ask my fingers. ;-}
>
They cured that for klutz'es like you and me. In SuSE, you have to do it twice
in a row.
Bob S
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