No Keyboard

TWOSPEED · 08-09-2006, 10:54 PM

Hello every one--well LINUX(suse) has been working well for a few weeks. Yesteday I lost all my documents to the trash, but got them back. Now my keyboard does not work--it works in bios and in some places but I can not type even my password in. Tried a new board and nothing.Any idea how to fix this? I cannot log in with my password to work on stuff. I cannot run a comand at all.
THANK YOU ALL

Tinkster · 08-10-2006, 01:55 AM

If it works BEFORE you get into X pass init=3 on the grub/lilo prompt as
a parameter to your kernel.

Cheers,
Tink

TWOSPEED · 08-10-2006, 10:04 PM

Well I can log into failsafe mode and I can then give it my password and user name. It tells me to have alot of fun(lol). but after that what command do I need to get this board up?
THANK YOU

Tinkster · 08-11-2006, 04:10 AM

The question is: what have you done? And do you know how to undo it?

If keyboard and/or mouse-input under Linux start failing there's
several possibilities.

The most likely will be that you modified your X11 configuration.
Next could be you ran an update, or installed a kernel that doesn't
match the old one in its configuration.

Cheers,
Tink

TWOSPEED · 08-11-2006, 10:11 PM

Thanks for the help. I did no updates---this is not online yet. Now all I get is a screen saying----booting from gub then a error 17 after that.
THANK YOU ALL

TWOSPEED · 08-11-2006, 10:48 PM

Well I put the disc back in and did a reinstall and the keyboard works, lost all my documents but there was not many of them, still just messing around with this linux. It seems that when I turn off-- or log off for the night and come back the next day and turn it back on, the trouble starts.Should I keep this pc up and running always?I shut down all my pc's at night. Just because of storms and such.
THANK YOU ALL

Tinkster · 08-12-2006, 12:45 AM

SHutting down a Linux machine should cause no problems. Just turning
if off certainly may cause file-system corruption and data loss.

Cheers,
Tink