On Friday 13 March 2009 14:53:39 James Knott wrote:
If you look at my comment #3: "The keyboard is completely unresponsive. I cannot use C-A-D to reboot, nor C-A-BKSP to restart X."
You'll understand why I was a bit upset with the questions in #4. What does it mean to you, when someone says what I did, as quoted above. For me, it means that I cannot do anything with the keyboard. Do you read it differently?
Yes. Ctrl+Alt+Del is handled by userspace, specifically init. Ctrl+Alt+Backspace is handled by userspace, specifically xorg. Alt+SysRq+{e,i,s,u,b} are handled completely within the kernel. Your keyboard may not be dead when Ctrl+Alt+Del doesn't work, just your userspace. You may be able to usefully recover and retain diagnostic information by using the Alt+SysRq keys. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/