On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 18:01:16 -0800
Marc Chamberlin
Hi - Well this is a fine mess I find myself in! I just installed openSuSE12.1 x64 on my media center. This is a complete new install into a separate partition. My previous version - openSuSE11.3 works fine. The installation of 12.1 pretty much went smoothly, only one hiccup, it froze when it tried to reboot, with some sort of display problem. But when I restarted the computer, 12.1 came up fine and showed my desktop. BUT I have no mouse or keyboard functionality! Kinda makes it hard to do anything! When I move the mouse, I do get a popup from something called BlueDevil which is asking if I should authorize my Logictech wireless mouse, but since I cannot move the mouse cursor, or do anything with my Logictech wireless keyboard, I am stuck in a Catch22 no-mans land...
So, could the wizard who designed this part of openSuSE12.1, or some other guru, tell me how to get my mouse and keyboard working?
BTW, the mouse and keyboard work fine when the GRUB boot menu is displayed. And all works fine when I boot back up 11.3..... So not a hardware issue, this is a configuration screw-up of 12.1. Booting into safe mode of 12.1 does NOT resolve it either....
Thanks in advance, Marc...
Hi Marc, I don't know what you mean by "safe mode" ... AFAIK that's a Windows only term. If you're saying you've already tried booting the system to run level 3 (no X) then this suggestion probably won't work. Otherwise, give this a try and report back. At the Grub menu, highlight the 12.1 installation and tap your '3' key, then hit Enter. This will boot the system to run level 3, which is full multiuser mode with networking. At the login prompt, log in as root and run 'yast', which will call up the 'ncurses' (text mode) interface to YaST2 so you can do things like add/remove software, check for updates, and so on. Hint: Use your Tab, Shift+Tab and arrow keys to navigate the ncurses interface. Try running Online Update and see if any updates fix the problem. Hint 2: When you've exited ncurses YaST and are back at the commandline, issue 'shutdown -r now && exit' to reboot the system cleanly. Good luck! Carl -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org