I have a new weirdest keyboard shortcut; the Dell C800 has a function key alternate key label suggesting a change in the screen.

[ticky@slime.global]

I have a new weirdest keyboard shortcut; the Dell C800 has a function key alternate key label suggesting a change in the screen. it *takes over from the OS* to show a text-mode message about your *fancy TFT display*

[rairii@labyrinth.zone]

@ticky oh no, this has to be SMM...

[aeveltstra@mastodon.social]

@ticky But... F5 is how most of my IDEs start a process... and Dell being Dell it requires one to press Fn as well... So each time one would try to tell an IDE to exexute a process, the computer would intervene and show this screen?

[jernej__s@infosec.exchange]

@aeveltstra @ticky No, you need to press Fn+F5 to get that screen. This laptop is old enough that pressing just F5 sends F5, not a media key.

[jernej__s@infosec.exchange]

@Rairii @ticky I had a 486 laptop with hardware hibernation support (which was likely implemented in SMM). It needed a special partition on the disk, then when you pressed a key combo (don't remember what it was – Fn+Esc maybe?), it switched to text mode to show the progress of saving RAM to disk.