Keyboard and Mouse Non-responsive

[Aart Koelewijn]

On Sat, 09 May 2009 22:38:31 -0400, anthony baldwin wrote:

> 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

I would look at /var/log/Xorg.log (or Xorg.0.log, whatever the name is in 
your situation). It might show you what went wrong when starting Xorg.

Aart