Re: USB Keyboard and Mouse not working after update on Ubuntu 14.04

Colm Buckley <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.user-groups.linux.ilug.general
Message-ID <CAPbCDfhMf4r82PuJATsnqnpdUh58bKLHh2EjgFJdWsz4ThFhbQ@mail.gmail.com>
Can't you do ctrl-shift-f7 or something to get back to text console from X?
I *think* that's handled by a different keyboard driver so might "still
work". But yeah - first thing I'd do is figure out whether this is an X
problem or a USB problem.

Colm


On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 2:51 PM, Kevin Lyda <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 10:44 PM Colm Buckley <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Does the text console still work?
>>
>
> No idea - it goes straight to X. I'll look at disabling that - the box
> isn't here annoyingly.
>
>
>> Can you get in via SSH or whatever to diagnose the system while it's
>> still running, or do you have to reboot into recovery mode to get at logs?
>>
>
> No, because the network is pants - this is at the GTC. I'm going to bring
> in an rpi2 and a hub to connect into it on Tuesday. But yes, that seems
> like an easier way to deal with the issue.
>
> X does start up differently. In recovery mode X is set up for a bigger
> screen than my monitor supports so it's in that tedious viewport mode where
> you move your mouse to the edges and then it pans to the part of the X
> screen you can't see.
>
> Kevin
>
>>


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