Re: Help! Keyboard and mouse stopped working in X

[Suraj Kumar <suraj@symonds.net>]

hi,

jennyw wrote on Sun, Aug 11, 2002 at 11:35:58PM -0700: 
jenny> 
jenny> I booted my computer this evening and discovered that as soon as X starts, my 
jenny> keyboard and mouse stop working.  When I say the keyboard stops working, I 
jenny> mean I cannot switch virtual consoles, cannot kill X -- even when I press the 
jenny> caps lock key the light on the keyboard doesn't go on.  That's pretty far 
jenny> gone.

see to it that your display manager is the last to start during system
init. (and donot have two display managers in /etc/rc<runlevel>.d/).
type /sbin/runlevel at the prompt to find out your runlevel. if your
runlevel is 2 you have to see to it that /etc/rc2.d/S99*dm is only one
in number.

  -Suraj
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