Paul Hartman wrote: > On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> 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. > > >
I couldn't find where I wrote those key sequences down so I couldn't try that. I did try everything else I could think of tho. The keyboard never did a thing. I doubt it would work but it may could have since it is beneath the GUI part. Heck, if I could just switch to a console, that would have been cool. At least then I could do something besides pulling the plug. There has to be a better way. Xorgconfig or something. Dale :-) :-)
