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From: Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about the magic Sys Req keys
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 13:58:06 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DF65DBE.9090508@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2883677.zSInyINOc4@localhost>

Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> On Monday 13 June 2011 04:18:23 Dale wrote:
>
>    
>> So, my question is this.  What kind of lock up could keep the magic keys
>> from working?  This is on my new amd64 machine.
>>      
> everything that kills the interrupt handler.
>
> everything that prevents the kernel from acting on interrupts it received
>
> everything that locks up the CPU
>
>    

Thanks for all the replies.  It appears I am on the right track.  I most 
likely have a bad kernel.  It's been a while since I had one of those.  
I guess one has to get through every once in a while.

Oh, I have a nvidia card.

Thanks

Dale

:-)  :-)



      reply	other threads:[~2011-06-13 19:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-13  9:18 [gentoo-user] Questions about the magic Sys Req keys Dale
2011-06-13  9:33 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2011-06-13  9:50 ` [gentoo-user] " meino.cramer
2011-06-13 10:00 ` JDM
2011-06-13 10:57 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2011-06-13 18:58   ` Dale [this message]

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