<div dir="ltr">I will try that. I doubt that the per-user stuff is at fault because no user has yet logged in.<div><br></div><div>The settings I modify most have to do with having 3 monitors, and I'd expect that to be system-wide. But I'll try anything right now.</div><div><br></div><div>renaming (not deleting) ~/.nvidia-settings-rc no joy</div><div>renaming ~/.config/... things no joy</div><div>these do not exist in /root</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jun 6, 2015 at 9:09 AM, sktsee <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sktseer@gmail.com" target="_blank">sktseer@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On Fri, 05 Jun 2015 20:49:20 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:<br>
<br>
> I'm running Xubuntu, and have done for quite a while. Right now it's at<br>
> 14.04. I just hosed it somehow, and when I reboot I cannot log in<br>
> because the keyboard and mouse are being ignored.<br>
><br>
> It's not the hardware, because the grub menu works with the keyboard,<br>
> and going to a recovery version of the kernel also works but it's<br>
> console mode,<br>
> not X. But when I try a normal boot, the cursor stays in the middle of<br>
> the desktop and the keyboard cannot enter my password. I have to do a<br>
> hard reset because 3-finger salute is also ignored.<br>
><br>
> The last thing I did was to change my nVidia settings by deleting one of<br>
> my monitors. That means X configuration, which also affects mouse and<br>
> keyboard. But I cannot find an xorg.conf file anywhere.<br>
<br>
</span>Actually, nvidia-settings usually doesn't touch /etc/X11/xorg.conf. It<br>
sets a per user X configuration in the users home directory, ~/.nvidia-<br>
settings-rc. Boot into console mode and delete or rename ~/.nvidia-<br>
settings-rc. And if you ever have run nvidia-settings as root (which you<br>
should not do), you should delete<br>
/root/.nvidia-settings-rc if it exists.<br>
<span class=""><br>
><br>
> Probably I just need to find out where the config settings are kept, and<br>
> I can reset them from a backup. Does anybody know?<br>
<br>
<br>
</span>These probably are the files you'd want examine.<br>
<br>
~/.nvidia-settings-rc (also possibly in /root)<br>
~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfce4-desktop.xml and xfce4-<br>
session.xml<br>
<br>
I would try deleting the nvidia.settings-rc file first, though.<br>
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