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From: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
To: Alex Bennee <alex@braddahead.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, eich@suse.de
Subject: Re: Ctrl-Alt-Backspace kills machine not X. ACPI?
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 13:15:14 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021204131514.GG647@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1039005946.2366.25.camel@cambridge.braddahead>

On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 12:45:45PM +0000, Alex Bennee wrote:

 > I've been running into problems with my machine locking up in X but
 > however I have been unable to diagnose it because the Ctrl-Alt-Backspace
 > key sequence kills my whole machine (i.e. powers it down).

ISTR reading something about this a while ago.
Some chipset vendor had the bright idea to make that the 'quick power
off' sequence.  I think Egbert Eich (cc'd) came up with a hack to
stop it.

		Dave

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| Dave Jones.        http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
| SuSE Labs

  reply	other threads:[~2002-12-04 13:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-12-04 12:45 Alex Bennee
2002-12-04 13:15 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2002-12-04 13:59   ` John Bradford
2002-12-04 14:27   ` Alex Bennee
2002-12-04 14:33     ` Dave Jones
2002-12-04 14:47 ` Michael Abshoff
2002-12-04 15:08   ` Alex Bennee
     [not found] ` <3DEDF74D.2090204@enib.fr>
     [not found]   ` <1039007556.2217.30.camel@cambridge.braddahead>
2002-12-04 18:35     ` XI

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