On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 8:51 PM, Kevin O'Gorman <kogor...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm running Xubuntu, and have done for quite a while. Right now it's at > 14.04. I just hosed it somehow, and when I reboot I cannot log in because > the keyboard and mouse are being ignored. > > It's not the hardware, because the grub menu works with the keyboard, and > going to a recovery version of the kernel also works but it's console mode, > not X. But when I try a normal boot, the cursor stays in the middle of the > desktop and the keyboard cannot enter my password. I have to do a hard > reset because 3-finger salute is also ignored. > > The last thing I did was to change my nVidia settings by deleting one of > my monitors. That means X configuration, which also affects mouse and > keyboard. But I cannot find an xorg.conf file anywhere. > > Probably I just need to find out where the config settings are kept, and I > can reset them from a backup. Does anybody know? > If you're wondering: yes, I'm asking on an Ubuntu list, but there's more people and expertise here, and Ubuntu is still Debian-based. I don't think there's anything Ubuntu-specific about this problem. -- Kevin O'Gorman #define QUESTION ((bb) || (!bb)) /* Shakespeare */ Please consider the environment before printing this email.
