[lug] lurid lucid: x can't see keyboard or mouse

bgiles bgiles at coyotesong.com
Mon May 3 19:24:59 MDT 2010


On 05/02/2010 08:48 PM, Lee Woodworth wrote:
> On 05/02/10 13:41, Bear Giles wrote:
>    
>> Against my better judgment I installed lurid lucid lynx.  Now the
>> standard USB keyboard and mouse aren't seen by X.  I can't even flip to
>> a virtual terminal due to the keyboard problem.  The keyboard is fine if
>> I'm in a recovery shell but totally dead in X.
>>      
> What versions of X were involved (from, to). Does your kernel have evdev
> enabled - some newer X servers seem to be requiring it.
> You should also look in your logs -- might be in /var/log/Xorg.0.log.
> Look for lines that with (EE) -- these mark errors.
>    
No errors.  Fortunately the problem went away when I did an 
update/upgrade this afternoon.  I don't know if the dist-upgrade was 
incomplete for some reason or they just fixed a bug and I picked it up.

Thanks for the help!

Bear



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