Alex Schuster wrote: > Neil Bothwick writes: > > >> On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 18:09:22 -0500, Dale wrote: >> >>>> I wonder if magic sysrq would have worked? I don't think I tried it >>>> when my keyboard became dead. >>>> >> It should do, because that goes direct to th kernel, and it is only X >> that cannot read the keyboard. >> >> >>> I couldn't find where I wrote those key sequences down so I couldn't >>> try that. >>> > > When you find them, put them right to your note about the softlevel=single > stuff. > > >> There are some strange mnemonics involving elephants, that are harder >> to remember than the key sequence. The easy way to remember the full >> sequence is BUSIER backwards. >> > > Actually, for me "Raising Elefants Is So Utterly Boring" is somehow easier > to remember than to invert a word in my mind :) > > >> Alt+SysRq+R-E-I-S-U-B >> > > After Alt+SysRq+R, the keyboard became working again for me and I could > switch back to the consoles with Ctrl+Alt+Fn. I used this A LOT of times > the last days. > > Wonko > > >
Well, I just printed this email out on paper. I'll stick it on my wall by my puter and maybe that will help. Dale :-) :-)
