Intrepid: Keyboard/nouse won't respond till gdm restart

[David Fox]

On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 11:35 AM, Andy <stude.list at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi all
>
> just "upgraded" to 8.10 and now when my system starts the keyboard and
> mouse don't work on the login screen.

Is yours a wireless USB combo keyboard mouse? The reason I asked was
that I got bit by something similar - the machine froze up late last
night in that there was no keyboard or mouse, but other stuff was
running like amarok, so it wasn't a "hard" lockup.

When I rebooted, no keyboard & mouse, repeated, nothing, although I
didn't try ctrl-alt-F1 - not sure that would have worked if there were
no keyboard, or if the system couldn't talk to the USB slot the
keyboard & mouse combo were plugged into. This is my first experience
with a wireless keyboard & mouse anyway.

Eventually I "fixed" the issue by booting into an older kernel on my
system, which will have to suffice for now.




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