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

[Grant Edwards]

On 2016-03-23, J. Roeleveld <joost@××××××××.org> wrote:
> On Tuesday, March 22, 2016 04:51:52 PM Grant Edwards wrote:
>> 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...
>
> Yes, but it Xorg isn't that buggy to warrant the inconvience of a console boot
> on a desktop/laptop.

Except I don't find it inconvenient to hit a couple keys if I want to
start X.

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