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From: "Walter Dnes" <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] LXDE
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2011 17:30:35 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110303223035.GA20847@waltdnes.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201103031435.09555.wonko@wonkology.org>

On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 02:35:08PM +0100, Alex Schuster wrote

> No. But try Alt-SysRq-R, this removes keyboard control from X,
> and you should be able to switch to a text terminal.  If not,
> Alt-SysRq-{E,I,S,U,B} (with little pasues between each) will at
> least do a cleaner reboot than hitting the reset button.

  Note that this requires "Magic SysRq key" support in the kernel.
Under "make menuconfig" enable...

    Kernel hacking  --->
    [*] Magic SysRq key

-- 
Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>



  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-03 22:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-03 12:31 [gentoo-user] LXDE dhk
2011-03-03 13:35 ` Alex Schuster
2011-03-03 22:30   ` Walter Dnes [this message]
2011-03-04  3:25 ` daid kahl
2011-03-05 19:51   ` dhk
2011-03-06  2:39     ` Kevin McCarthy
2011-03-06  9:05       ` Mick
2011-03-06 16:19       ` dhk

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