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authorPaul Fox <pgf@laptop.org>2010-05-19 13:11:13 -0400
committerDmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>2010-05-19 13:14:15 -0400
commita2056ffd4ae9e578ff9abb5eb49137020af71fd4 (patch)
tree9994be5959824107ee3466ad58780d47a4165607 /Documentation
parentee6e54e2ae56734a96fd7b66cf46b756d0f25ca3 (diff)
Input: Documentation/sysrq.txt - update KEY_SYSRQ info
While setting up sysrq operation on the XO laptop (which lacks a SysRq key), i realized that the documentation was quite out of date. Change documentation of SysRq to reflect current KEY_SYSRQ value. Signed-off-by: Paul Fox <pgf@laptop.org> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
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@@ -177,13 +177,13 @@ virtual console (ALT+Fn) and then back again should also help.
177 177
178* I hit SysRq, but nothing seems to happen, what's wrong? 178* I hit SysRq, but nothing seems to happen, what's wrong?
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180There are some keyboards that send different scancodes for SysRq than the 180There are some keyboards that produce a different keycode for SysRq than the
181pre-defined 0x54. So if SysRq doesn't work out of the box for a certain 181pre-defined value of 99 (see KEY_SYSRQ in include/linux/input.h), or which
182keyboard, run 'showkey -s' to find out the proper scancode sequence. Then 182don't have a SysRq key at all. In these cases, run 'showkey -s' to find an
183use 'setkeycodes <sequence> 84' to define this sequence to the usual SysRq 183appropriate scancode sequence, and use 'setkeycodes <sequence> 99' to map
184code (84 is decimal for 0x54). It's probably best to put this command in a 184this sequence to the usual SysRq code (e.g., 'setkeycodes e05b 99'). It's
185boot script. Oh, and by the way, you exit 'showkey' by not typing anything 185probably best to put this command in a boot script. Oh, and by the way, you
186for ten seconds. 186exit 'showkey' by not typing anything for ten seconds.
187 187
188* I want to add SysRQ key events to a module, how does it work? 188* I want to add SysRQ key events to a module, how does it work?
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