Re: USB Keyboard and Mouse not working after update on Ubuntu 14.04
Colm Buckley <[email protected]>
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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 > >> -- Colm Buckley / [email protected] / +353 87 2469146 -- Irish Linux Users Group --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ILUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/a/linux.ie/group/ilug/. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/a/linux.ie/d/msgid/ilug/CAPbCDfhMf4r82PuJATsnqnpdUh58bKLHh2EjgFJdWsz4ThFhbQ%40mail.gmail.com.