hello. My Mandriva (2006) has been having frozen mouse and keyboard problems. It has worked before however. Can someone tell me why this is happening. Thanks.

These type of problems can be either hardware or software related. It is time for you to do some problem determination.

Can you tell us if it freezes with another operating system? Can you swap the keyboard and mouse to see if it is hardware related? If you have a single boot machine, you can always burn a live CD like Knoppix and boot that to see if will freeze with another distro, without any installation activity required.

When you post back, you need to let us know what type of hardare you have. ie is the keyboard PS/2 or USB connected. Is this a lap top or desktop etc. The more information you supply, the sooner you will get it fixed.

ok...its hardly ever booting up anymore..but if it does, it usually freezes. I have a 120 gb harddrive(30gb dedicated to linux-60 gb fat32 partition-30 windows partition-~~512 swap partition(megabytes) with a pentium 4 processor, 2 disc drives(dvd-r/cd-r/rw)...then im running a dual boot with Winblows XP professional. Windows does not freeze. Its not hardware related seeing that i left it frozen last night at 9:22 and when i came home today(4:00), it still had 9:32 on the clock. Its obviously not hardware related. Sometimes on that BIOS screen where it usually says "Lilo 1.2.4." it sometimes has Memory Not Readable Press F1 to continue
F12 to setup.
Then...i press F1 and sometimes it boots up(sometimes boots then freezes) sometimes it doesn't boot up it just goes (after the LIlo) to Mandriva Linux Free Screen where it has the loading bar..except the loading bar doesn't load-or sometimes it does. I have KDE desktop(if that helps) with default settings.

thanks in advance

ok this is getting extremely annoying. Everytime i boot up and open up something it eventually just freezes. This is really starting to tick me off. Is there anything that can be done to prevent it from freezing.

For me, the problem is keyboard only and it's in kde. The strange thing is it happened only after I've logged in. When I was typing my user name and password, everything seemed fine. Once it inside KDE, the keyboard just freezed or sometimes responded very slowly at certain keys like 'l' or 'tab' or something. In my case, since I 've also installed Gnome, I've logged out of kde (my mouse is still working), and logged in to Gnome Session instead of Kde. Inside Gnome, my keyboard is working fine. This post is written from this particular Gnome Session.

I just started having the same problem: When I log in as a particular user, the user name and password fields work perfectly. Once I am logged in, using a KDE session, the keyboard is dead. If I log in as root using a KDE session, the keyboard works fine. Anyone have any ideas?

Ipodlinux,

Here are two links to help with sorting out your booting, and locking issues. These are not easy problems to resolve, but they are fixable.

http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-hw1/

http://www-128.ibm.com/developerwork...ary/l-hw2.html

I hope this gets you started in the right directtion.

I have a problem similar to ipodlinux's.

I have just installed Mandriva 2006 (it's my first time with linux except a few games on my friend's computer) onto my 80 GB Maxtor external HDD, with Windows XP Home on the main 80 GB HDD (inside the tower). Pentium IV, with usb keyboard and mouse. Windows is booting normally.

Whenever I get into the bootloader (I use GRUB graphical) I have options to boot into several things. Windows, as I said, boots normally. Linux, however, goes to the loading screen that has a large "FREE" written across the back, with a penguin (not Tux)there also. It's got a general blue theme.

The loading bar down the bottom does not do anything that it should (that is on the assumtion that a colour of some sort should fill up the bar). Please, help out a newbie in need!!

Press F2 in order to go into verbose booting. Tell the forum what the last entry is that you see. This is the point where it hangs. Unplug all unnecessary usb-devices and check again. Did you try to boot in failsafe mode or with the following parameters?
linux noapic nolapic
They can help quite often.

Well, as much as I appreciate your help...

I accidentally deleted windows off the computer. NOW all I need to do is persuade my family that once someone checks if we can get the data back off it (which I doubt we will) to install linux real permanent-like.

But thank you; when the compy is back up 'n' runnin', I'm sure to need help, and I'll know where to come.

PS: this is what part of the alphabet would look like if q and r were eliminated.

PPS: I'm at a friend's place a.t.m.

-Whittsnake