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

[Andy]

2009/3/1 David Fox <dfox94085 at gmail.com>:
> Is yours a wireless USB combo keyboard mouse?

Yes.

> 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.

Depends on where the problem is. If its an X/Gdm problem then the
kernel can still intercept the Ctrl-Alt-F1 command sequence and switch
to console. Obviously if the kernel is not seeing the keyboard then
Ctrl-Alt-F1 won't work either,

I wouldn't have expected the system to start looking up once it's
running so you may have a different problem.

Andy

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