Arch Linux

JayTheLinuxUser

Member

Registered: 2010-04-22

Posts: 1

USB Keyboard

Within the past couple days I installed Arch. I got my internet working, so I ran pacman -Syu to install updates. When I rebooted, it seemed to have broken USB keyboard support. I tried two different USB keyboards, and I don't have any PS/2 keyboards handy to try. Is there a way I can fix this? Thanks.

ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

Posts: 20,653

Re: USB Keyboard

Does your keyboard work while still in the GRUB environment?  If so, while in grub, edit the kernel command line and add "init 1"
This should boot  you to a console mode without any king of GUI.  From there, you should be able to use your keyboard to help find and fix  the problem.

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