Fernando Rodriguez <frodriguez.develo...@outlook.com> writes: > On Saturday, April 04, 2015 2:41:12 PM lee wrote: >> I always can't remember which keys to press with that, so I have it >> disabled. >> >> And when the keyboard is unresponsive, it won't work. > > It will in many cases (probably most). Usually it's xorg that "freezes" the > keyboard, in those cases ctrl-alt-sysrq-r followed by ctrl-alt-f1 should get > you to the VT where you can restart xorg. I think the kernel needs to be > completely locked with interrupts disabled or locked in a higher priority > interrupt (unlikely) for it not to work or the USB stack totally broken. I > can > see some of the commands failing or even completely locking the kernel if > something's really messed up.
How do you remember these keys? A long time ago, I even printed a list, and of course, it got lost before I ever came close to needing it. Paper is just too volatile. -- Again we must be afraid of speaking of daemons for fear that daemons might swallow us. Finally, this fear has become reasonable.
