> Took a look at that annoying beeping that you get after a sysrq and it
> turns out that if you release alt before printscreen, alt gets "stuck"
> down. To try this out hit +alt +ps -alt -ps. Now you can just hit the
> right arrow to switch to the next console and everything is back to
> normal. Is this a bug in the keyboard handling code or a hardware quirk
> of the sysrq key? Any keyboard gurus out there know whats going on?
It's a known problem. In case you hold the sysrq combination, all
key codes are passed to the sysrq code without any other processing until
a SysRq release code is seen to prevent sysrq commands from being passed to
apps. Anyway, this has the side-effect you describe, but as I still think
of sysrq as of a hacker-only tool and I don't know of any trivial way how
to fix it, I don't plan doing anything with it.
Have a nice fortnight
-- Martin `MJ' Mares <mj@ucw.cz> http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/ Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth "f u cn rd ths, u cn gt a gd jb n cmptr prgrmmng."- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu