Re: sak-2.1.131.diff

Ragnar Hojland Espinosa (ragnar@redestb.es)
Tue, 15 Dec 1998 10:02:09 +0100 (CET)


On Sun, 13 Dec 1998, Michael Dale Long wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Dec 1998, Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk wrote:
> > That's because various keymaps map Alt-SysRq to Last_Console.
> Indeed, that was the problem.

I guess I should had added a note about that on the help. Or, if anyone
has any alternative scan code, or suggestion..

> SAK-ing X still kills the console, but I suspect that is true of it's

Yep. But there's not much you can do [0], since the kernel doesn't know
how to properly restore video modes.

> Alt+SysRQ+k incarnation as well. I'd try it to see but I've crashed my
> console enough times for a 24-hour period. ;)

Doing svgalib stuff? ;)

[0] At least nothing I know of

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