[thinkpad] Re: Re: [ltp] X freezing and CAPS LED blinking pattern?

[Julian]

This is not going to be very helpful but I had the same thing on my T30 - X freezing
with caps light flashing. I fixed it with a very minor change - might have been
uninstalling tpb or one of the thinkpad add on software apps or a simple
config change.

If I remember I'll get back to you.




On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 10:27:09AM -0400, otisg wrote:
> Veeeeery useful.  I didn't know about this before.  I enabled
> Sysrq in /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq and am waiting for that crash
> now with my fingers ready! :)
> 
> Thank you for this useful information!
> Otis
> 
> ---- On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, mukesh agrawal
> (linux-thinkpad@mukesh.agrawals.org) wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, otisg wrote:
> > 
> > > The left-most LED with a '1' inside it, I don't remember
> what it is for,
> > > is also not lit.
> > 
> > That's num lock. (For using the "embedded numeric keypad".)
> > 
> > > I am not familiar with Alt-Sysrq-{R,S,U,B} key combination.
> > > What is Sysrq?  Oh, I see it under PrtSc on my keyboard.  I
> will
> > > try that next time this happens (later today, probably :().
> > > R,S,U,B are, I assume, just letters, so Alt-Sysrq-<R or S or
> U
> > > or B> is what you recommend.
> > 
> > Make sure your kernel is compiled with support for the SysRq
> key
> > (CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ=y). And look at Documentation/sysrq.txt
> (part of the
> > kernel source tree) for an explanation of what you can do with
> it.
> > 
> > 
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