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 Wikipedia). Unfortunatley, to press SysRq
(on
F10
), I had to use the Fn
key, so if I pressed e. g.
Alt
+Fn
+SysRq
+U
, the U
was detected as keypad 4
because of
the Fn
key. Luckily, it works as intended if you release the Fn
key
after having pressed Fn
+SysRq
, so to remount all mounted filesystems
in read-only mode, you would actually hold Alt
, hold Fn
, hold
SysRq
, release Fn
, press U
.
Never thought notebook keyboards were so smart