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Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2011 07:08:48 +0100
From: Jonathan <winelauncher.jonathan@googlemail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] no keyboard no mouse
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On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 22:53:32 +1000
Adam Carter <adamcarter3@gmail.com> wrote:

> Make an entry in your grub.conf with gentoo=nox, so you can boot to
> command line. here's what mine looks like

What a reboot to fix Xorg keyboard drivers? Thats not the Linux way.

Press at the same time Ctrl + Alt + SysRq + r
Then press Ctrl + Alt + F1
Login as root and type emerge x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev
Then /etc/init.d/xdm restart

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key