On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Dale <[email protected]> wrote: > Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> walt wrote: >>> [...] >>> HTF the average user is supposed to figure all this out for himself >>> is beyond me. I'm thankful for the expert help I got. >> >> Gentoo is not for the average user. We had discussions in the past >> where GUIs were discussed to make these things automagic, but most >> Gentoo users here prefer that Gentoo should not offer such GUIs so >> that the user can learn and not become clueless. >> >> So congratulations. You've learned. It's funny though how the users >> that were against introducing GUIs to Gentoo now complain about HAL :P >> >> >> > > My complaint was about having a system with basically no keyboard. I > had to unplug mine without a proper shutdown. That is my complaint. It > should at least have a fall back or something. Heck, running xorgconfig > again would have been better than this mess. I wonder if that would > work? I do recall at one time that the GUI would not start if no mouse > was found. Wonder what happened there? > > No, I don't have another machine to ssh in. I wish I did. It's have a > working keyboard or hit the reset button/pull the plug. Nether is a > good option. I bought a nice UPS to prevent this sort of mess. > > Dale
I wonder if magic sysrq would have worked? I don't think I tried it when my keyboard became dead.
