More double posting, but there's an update: if I unplug the keyboard and mouse and then reconnect them once X is running, they work fine and they continue to work after closing X and reopening it. This does not, however, continue to be true after rebooting. pants. On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 05:14:53PM -0700, pants wrote: > Sorry for double posting, but this is just to report that the sysreq > trick you recommended does not work in my case. Indeed, not even the > capslock light responds; it's like the keyboard is being completely > ignored by my system. > > pants. >