Keyboard and Mouse Non-responsive

[anthony baldwin]

APseudoUtopia wrote:
> On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 9:58 PM, Steve Flynn <anothermindbomb at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 2:33 AM, APseudoUtopia <apseudoutopia at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> The
>>> cursor on the login screen is blinking (so it's not frozen up). But
>>> the mouse is entirely unresponsive, as is the keyboard.
>>>
>>> Does anyone have any ideas as to how I can fix this?
>> D you have the same situation if you boot into recovery mode?
>>
> 
> I rebooted into the Recovery entry in grub. In the menu that comes up,
> the keyboard works fine. If I drop to a root shell, it also works
> fine. However, if I select the "resume" option, it continues booting
> into gnome and the same problem happens (no response from keyboard and
> mouse).
> 

Did you look at your Xorg.conf?
Something you removed might have hosed the mouse and keyboard portions 
thereof, perhaps.
Sounds like the problem is only when X is running, in any case, since 
you can type to terminal in recovery mode.
Just a thought...

/tony

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