Re: [linux-audio-dev] Watchdogs?

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Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Watchdogs?
From: Jörn Nettingsmeier (nettings_AT_folkwang-hochschule.de)
Date: Fri Mar 22 2002 - 22:43:44 EET

Paul Davis wrote:
>
> >Interesting. Better check my config to see if I'm really
> >using it in this kernel...
> >But I remember other times that I couldn't get sysreq to work
> >in X.

me too.

> under X, none of the options that get it to print anything on the
> console do anything to the screen, but they all still have an
> effect. the acid test is to use the reboot combo
> (Ctl-Alt-SysReq-b).

on my system it's just alt-sysrq, but it seems that the event does
not always reach the kernel.
is it possible that some x apps can swallow it, or does the kernel
weed out sysrq events before any userspace tasks ? 

-- 
Computer Science is no more about computers than
astronomy is about telescopes.
	- Edsger W. Dijkstra
Sigh.
	- me

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