Re: Keyboard and mouse don't work at all in login window after new install

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

J Fields wrote:

> Keyboard and mouse don't work at all in login window after install.
>
> I just now finished installing.
>
> It says this after reboot:
> "Gnome Desktop Manger"
> ...
> "Username"
> but my keyboard won't type anything
> and I can't use alt-F2 to go to another
> shell to kill X-windows.
>
> Only thing I can to is turn the power off to reboot.
> I can't even rlogin from another machine since 
> I configured this new system as a DHCP boot for internet surfing
> (my present in house network is 10.x.x.x based and this was
> the first machine in my plan to migrate to DHCP).
>
> I guess it is a problem that I did not know
> which serial port the mouse is on... maybe?
> How can I find that out?
> Maybe the knoppix cd will help in this regards?
>
>
>  

Assuming you're using LILO, at the LILO prompt, type something like
   linux single
to boot into single-user mode. If the keyboard works, disable gdm[1] and 
then reboot normally. Now you can troubleshoot the problem.

1. Several ways to do this; probably easiest for this purpose is to add 
the line
   exit 0
as the first executable line of "/etc/init.d/gdm".


Kent