From: Indexer <indexer@internode.on.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Frozen after Upgrade
Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 23:11:23 +0930 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <A08964AD-CB1A-4703-A2C0-1F978698AD6A@internode.on.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <v2g2db4be991005030631pd070686dg60634ef228db9311@mail.gmail.com>
On 03/05/2010, at 11:01 PM, Colleen Beamer wrote:
> Hi,
> Yesterday, I updated my system. On reboot, I get to my login screen,
> but then everything is frozen - the cursor blinks in the box where I
> am supposed to enter my password, but the keyboard doesn't work and my
> mouse is frozen. I don't know if this has something do do with the
> xorg update that happened in connection with my nvidia driver.
>
> I can't even kill X because, stupid me didn't configure the
> Ctrl-Alt-Backspace when it was no longer automatically configured.
>
> Right now, I have booted from a Kubuntu live CD so was able to get
> into the system to write this.
>
> Is there a way I can fix this without having to do a complete reinstall?
>
I would be checking my Xorg.conf to see if you have evdev enabled, set evdev in your make.conf just in case, and make sure you have hald set to start on boot as xorg now needs it for keyboard and mouse.
William
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-03 13:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-03 13:31 [gentoo-user] Frozen after Upgrade Colleen Beamer
2010-05-03 13:40 ` Hazen Valliant-Saunders
2010-05-03 13:44 ` Colleen Beamer
2010-05-03 13:57 ` Philip Webb
2010-05-03 14:10 ` Dale
2010-05-03 20:13 ` CJoeB
2010-05-03 22:53 ` Dale
2010-05-03 14:26 ` Colleen Beamer
2010-05-04 9:56 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-05-03 13:41 ` Indexer [this message]
2010-05-03 13:47 ` Colleen Beamer
2010-05-03 13:58 ` Indexer
2010-05-03 14:04 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-05-03 14:30 ` Colleen Beamer
2010-05-03 14:56 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-05-03 15:06 ` KH
2010-05-03 15:10 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-05-03 16:22 ` Willie Wong
2010-05-03 16:41 ` Dale
2010-05-03 14:56 ` Hazen Valliant-Saunders
2010-05-03 14:07 ` Dale
2010-05-03 13:45 ` [gentoo-user] " Remy Blank
2010-05-03 13:49 ` Colleen Beamer
2010-05-03 14:40 ` Remy Blank
2010-05-03 15:09 ` Peter Humphrey
2010-05-03 16:04 ` Frank Steinmetzger
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