|> Hi,
|>> 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.
FWIW, the m68k port already handles this quite nicely. All you have to do
is to still process modifier keys (ie, update shift_state) when in "sysrq
mode".
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