Re: Computer boots, but no mouse or keyboard

J G Miller wrote:
On Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010 at 21:21:17h -0400, Jerome Robertson explained:

For starters, my /var/log/Xorg.0.log returned:

So you can confirm that dmesg does indicate that the kernel
is finding both the keyboard and the mouse?

Yes, dmesg returns that message from your first post, /devices/platform/i8042/serio0/input/input3 for keyboard, .../serio1/input/input5 for mouse

Cannot locate a core pointer device
Cannot locate a keyboard device
The server relies on HAL to provide the list of input devices

Two questions then

1) Which GNU/Linux distribution and version are you using?
This is important because the latest versions of some
distributions are no longer using HAL.

2) Can you check that hald is running with

ps -adef | egrep hald

hald is not running, all I get from this command is the command itself.

You could try forcing the xorg server to use the keyboard and mouse with
entries in xorg.conf

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse" Driver "mouse"
EndSection

You can give the Identifier parameter a description specific to your
hardware models, but then you would need to include these as the
ServerLayout section InputDevice parameter strings as well.

I added the above to xorg.conf and re-booted and there was no change: have mouse, don't have keyboard.
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