Comment 5 for bug 315503

All that happened was that I got this output to the command line:

SysRq : Changing Loglevel
Loglevel set to 5
SysRq : Changing Loglevel
Loglevel set to 4

I got the same result both while pressing and not pressing Shift.

On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Dominik <email address hidden> wrote:

> Did you try this key combinations in a system console (press
> ctrl+alt+f1)? If this works for you, this bug is maybe a duplicate of
> bug 305762 and affects only xorg.
>
> --
> "Magic SysRq keys" don't work on laptop (Dell XPS M1210)
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/315503
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>
> Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu: New
>
> Bug description:
> After reading about the "Magic SysRq key" combinations, I have attempted to
> use them several times when my laptop (a Dell XPS M1210) has crashed for
> various reasons, and they have never worked. The specific sequences I've
> tried were REISUB and RSEIUB, and neither had any visible effect.
>
> This may have something to do with the keyboard layout. It's more or less a
> normal QWERTY, but several keys share space, including SysRq, which is on
> F11. To switch between them there is a Fn key which must be pressed. So in
> theory, the full key combo would actually be Alt+Fn+F11/SysRq+R and so on.
> But this doesn't seem to work. I've also tried it without the Fn key, and
> that doesn't seem to work either. I don't have a USB keyboard available, so
> I don't know if it works with another keyboard attached.
>
> If there's any other useful information I can give you, let me know.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> Architecture: i386
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
> Package: linux-image-2.6.27-11-generic 2.6.27-11.23
> ProcCmdLine: root=UUID=2f1c73c2-68b9-40b2-9ad7-0899f0df580b ro quiet splash
> ProcEnviron:
>
> PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.27-11.23-generic
> SourcePackage: linux
>