Comment 32 for bug 642792

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote : Re: [Bug 642792] Re: ALT+PrtSc not recognised: breaks built-in screenshot function

Oli [2010-10-04 16:32 -0000]:
> But if the patch by Dmitry Torokhov is the cause of this behavioural
> change (which it does look like it could be - it's making sysrq bypass
> evdev)

Yes, I agree, this seems to be it. I checked with /lib/udev/keymap -i,
and SysRq doesn't produce an evdev event, as intended by this patch.
Thanks for confirming!

> I can't see there being enough time to send this upstream, get a fix
> and get it back through trunk into maverick before release.

No, at this point it needs to become a stable release update either
way, I'm afraid.