Keyboard and Mouse Non-responsive

[APseudoUtopia]

On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 10:41 PM, Steve Flynn <anothermindbomb at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 3:28 AM, APseudoUtopia <apseudoutopia at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>> D you have the same situation if you boot into recovery mode?
>>>
>
> Pardon my typo on "do". You seem to have grabbed the essence of my post however!
>
>> 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).
>
> Ok - it would appear that you have a misconfiguration on your keyboard
> and mouse configuration (presumably within X). Quite why you have this
> is indeterminable as you don't specify whterh you have a USB or PS2
> keyboard and mouse. I'm going to assume you're using USB for both
> however, given we're in 2009.
>
> I would drop yourself into a single user shell, and execute a "sudo
> dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" (please note I have not tested this -
> I'm currently running an AIX 5.3L system).... things might have
> changed a little (or a lot)

I don't know if my keyboard/mouse is USB or not. Both are built into
the laptop itself.

I tried running dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg, and it asked me a
couple questions about my keyboard. I rebooted, and it was the same -
no response.

Does aptitude log what packages have been recently removed? I can go
back through that list and see if any are related to xorg and/or
mouse/keyboard libraries.

Thanks for the help.