How to give control over keyboard back to X server after Alt + SysRq + R trick
- by Øystein Tråsdahl
Situation: an application freezes the X server and no keyboard input works. So I use Alt+SysRq+R to take the keyboard out of raw mode (make the kernel take control of the keyboard away from the X server). I can then type Ctrl+Alt+F1, kill the bad processes, and everything works again. So far so good.
But the keyboard is still in the hands of the…