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hi all. hopefully someone has run into this and can help. i've had kde 3.5 running on suse 10 for a few weeks now and all was fine. so i decided to download and check out Kubuntu 5.10. i ran the boot disc and started looking at the installation options but i wanted to change to partitions around, so i backed out of everything, even used 'undo all disk changes' and rebooted. now i have no keyboard or mouse when trying to login to kde. i can get too the command line and log on, and use yast, etc etc, but cannot log on to the kde shell because i cannot type or use my mouse here. can anyone direct me on how to fix this? i doubt it's a big issue because from the command line i can log on as root and check out everything on my system. i can start sax2, but when it actually starts that program for some reason sax2 is out of my monitors range and i can post the video on it. any help please???
i found the devices section and everything looks correct, but i don't what my options are for changing things here. i tried a few small changes, they didnt' work, so i rebooted and went back and changed them back to where they were. this just seems so trivial and small that i should be able to make a quick fix and get back into the shell. everything works fine until i get to the gui login. i don't want to just blow away the install and start over because i now have a lot of apps and such on this drive, of course right on my desktop. i do have 2 hard drives in here though but i can't find the command to get me to the other drive. can anyone help with that one? if i can copy/move my stuff to the other HDD, i can blow this away and make a clean install. if its as easy as "D:" in windows, i am sure it is at least this simple in linux, however i don't yet know what that command is.
if i type /dev/hda1 (the drive i want to copy stuff to) i get Permission Denied even though i am logged on as root. how do i change this permission to let me into my other drive?
i figured out how to get to the other drive. finally. so now i can finally copy these files and apps off the linux drive onto the other drive so i can format it again and try suse 10 fresh install again. i can't believe no one has run into the keyboard / mouse freezing at the gui logon. i can alt+f1 into the command line and do anything or see anything on my system, just not in the gui. what gives?
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