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2013-09-19T05:04:01Z2009-11-16T23:00:00Z
<p>At work I’m using the Dell Latidude E5500 notebook, running on Debian
testing. Today, I had some issues with Xorg which could not detect my
keyboard and mouse, so I tried to do the Magic SysRq tricks (you can
read about it at <a href="https://rohieb.name/(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq)">Wikipedia</a>). Unfortunatley, to press <code>SysRq</code> (on
<code>F10</code>), I had to use the <code>Fn</code> key, so if I pressed e. g.
<code>Alt</code>+<code>Fn</code>+<code>SysRq</code>+<code>U</code>, the <code>U</code> was detected as <code>keypad 4</code> because of
the <code>Fn</code> key. Luckily, it works as intended if you release the <code>Fn</code> key
after having pressed <code>Fn</code>+<code>SysRq</code>, so to remount all mounted filesystems
in read-only mode, you would actually hold <code>Alt</code>, hold <code>Fn</code>, hold
<code>SysRq</code>, release <code>Fn</code>, press <code>U</code>.</p>
<p>Never thought notebook keyboards were so smart <img src="https://rohieb.name/smileys/smile.png" alt=":-)" /></p>