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Old 11-26-2005, 11:02 AM   #1
LeeHA
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Suse 10, lost keyboard in X


Hi there

Just installed Suse 10, KDE 3.4 on one of my machines, it was working fine, but after a restart I have no keyboard or mouse.

I can get to a console and the keyboard works perfectly there so can only assume its an X issue.

Before it disappeared I was setting up the Keyboard layout (to english UK) and installing thunderbird and all appeared to work, like i say until I did a restart and now I can type anything or move the mouse pointer.

I'm not so hot on the Linux console, is there a way to restore the keyboard / mouse back to defaults maybe this will get them working again.

If it makes any difference they are cordless via the USB, but the keyboard works in the console.

Thanks

Lee
 
Old 11-26-2005, 11:36 AM   #2
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Try running "sax2".
 
Old 11-26-2005, 11:42 AM   #3
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Without a working keyboard, its kind of hard to do anything. ... USB keyboards can be more problematical to install than ps2.

Did you state you could boot to text mode, and get your keyboard control back? If so, then after booting to text, loggin in, type su to get root permissions, and follow the suggestion given earlier in this thread to run sax2 and reconfigure your keyboard. (of course, it sort of begs the question, ... how do you boot to text mode, if you can't enter anything in the boot menu with your keyboard)?

Some PC's need to have a USB keyboard enabled in the BIOS.
 
Old 11-26-2005, 11:47 AM   #4
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Hi

Excellent, well I thought I'd tried everything! but obviously not that!

Yep that fired up, my mouse and keyboard are operational again. ! yippy

It was a strange problem, I say the keyboard didn't work, well I couldn't type any letters, but Alt+F keys worked, so I could get a console up, very bizare problem, I hope that's the last I see of that one, I'll leave the keyboard / mouse setup alone now I think, I was trying to get the mouse "wheel" working, but I can live without it if it keeps the keyboard / mouse working !

Thanks a lot

Last edited by LeeHA; 11-26-2005 at 11:50 AM.
 
  


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