Mouse and keyboard not responding

pineauk · 2010-02-25 06:09:10

I have an Asus k40IN notebook, latest firmware(if it makes a difference). I had just finished installing cups and the other printer drivers, then decided I would restart because, well, when you install new packages, restarts usually help. In fact this seemed to have killed my laptop somehow. I went into rc.conf and removed cups from the daemons list, even eventually uninstalled it, however, once gdm loads the system completely freezes all methods of input. Have even tried a usb mouse, no luck. Anyone have any ideas, help would be great.

jasonwryan · 2010-02-25 08:09:10

Did you update any other packages at the same time? You could look through /var/log/pacman.log for clues...

johan84 · 2010-02-25 19:46:26

The first time I installed arch I forgot to start the dbus and hal daemon after restarting so when I started x I didn't have mouse/keyboard either.
If you put these in rc.conf (or you started them manually) than you can just ignore what I said.

bema · 2010-02-25 20:21:00

Another thing could be that the evdev driver is broken. You could try reinstalling xf86-input-evdev. However, hal not being started seems more likely.

pineauk · 2010-02-26 02:46:37

yeah, I took a second look last night after posting this, hal was removed somehow, anyways, thanks for the responses.

Last edited by pineauk (2010-02-26 02:47:08)

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#1 2010-02-25 06:09:10

Mouse and keyboard not responding

#2 2010-02-25 08:09:10

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#3 2010-02-25 19:46:26

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#4 2010-02-25 20:21:00

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