James Ausmus wrote:
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com
<mailto:rdalek1...@gmail.com>> wrote:
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That was my problem, no keyboard or mouse. Sort of hard to do
much in that situation.
Dale
Pshaw... ;)
<ctrl>-<alt>-<F1>, or, if that doesn't work:
<alt>-<SysRq>-R
<alt>-<F1>
Of course, method 2 only works if you have the "Magic SysRq keys" (or
whatever it's called) option enabled in the kernel, and not enough
people know about the Magic SysRq keys at this point...
-James
In that case, ctrl alt F1 does nothing. You also need to understand
that most people don't even know how to use SysRq keys. I didn't and
had to do a hard shutdown. I had to actually pull the plug to do any
good. Luckily I knew how to get it to boot into single user mode so I
could disable hal otherwise I would be right back on the same screen
again with no mouse or keyboard. It would be really bad if even that
didn't work with devicekit. I'm not sure how it couldn't but we never
know do we?
I could work around it if needed but some other user may not can. What
if that hard shutdown corrupts a file system and causes data loss? I'm
not just wanting it to work better for me but for others who use Linux
and know even less than I do.
Dale
:-) :-)
