Re: arrow key problem, kernel 2.2.19pre17
On Sat, 31 Mar 2001, Ethan Benson wrote:
>> After upgrading to kernel-image-2.2.19pre17-pmac, I can no longer use
>> my right arrow key. It is not sending any key events at all, according
>> to xev and showkey. The keys worked fine under a 2.2.18 kernel I
>> compiled myself from kernel.org sources.
> i vaguely remember benh grumbling about this on irc a couple weeks
> ago, iirc he finally figured out that the kernel decided that the
> arrow key should be sysrq or something silly like that. is sysrq
> turned on in this kernel?
$ grep SYSRQ /boot/config-2.2.19pre17
CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ=y
That would explain why my other kernel worked -- sysrq was off in that.
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