[gentoo-user] Re: Keyboard is dead after emerge-update

[Grant Edwards]

On 2016-03-22, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Mar 2016 13:42:26 +0000, Ian Bloss wrote:
>
>> Don't know if anyone has mentioned this but you can always use the
>> magic sysrsc key to get control of input back from X
>
> Yes, I mentioned Alt-SysReq-R several posts ago.

You're probably right, the magick sysrq feature pretty much obviates
the need to boot to console to protect against buggy X11 servers. But,
it's fairly recent and Linux-specific. So, the boot-to-console trait
(which evolved pre-sysrq -- and even pre-Linux, and has very little
"cost") hasn't died out yet...

-- 
Grant