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
