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...
Since your mouse and keyboard work fine in 11.3 the problem is obviously in 12.1. BlueDevil is the bluetooth interface for an external device and if it hasn't been initialized by the time you reach login it can't see those devices. Were you using this same mouse/keyboard when you installed 11.3? I suspect that it was changed after that install? You might try attaching a PS2 mouse/keyboard and make sure BlueDevil service is started (Start > Configure Desktop > Startup & Shutdown > Service Manager - make sure BlueDevil is checked). Let us know if that solves the problem. Tom -- Tom Taylor - retired penguin openSUSE 11.4 x86_64 openSUSE 12.1 KDE 4.6.00, FF 4.0 KDE 4.7.2, FF 8.0 claws-mail 3.7.9 registered linux user 263467 linxt-At-comcast-DoT-net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org