Mouse & Keyboard - not working on login

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chlowden007
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Mouse & Keyboard - not working on login

Post by chlowden007 » 2022/11/21 18:43:34

Hello
For no apparent reason, keyboard & mouse no longer work on startup when I arrive on the user login page. The keyboard & mouse work fine in the BIOS and when I select a boot OS and the startup logs do not seem to indicate an issue.
Strangely, the keyboard capital & number pad buttons work fine in the BIOS but also stop working when the user login page appears.
I cannot find a way to install the keyboard & mouse drivers. I have checked the Xorg but cannot see anything strange. I rebooted on an older xorg config and the issue remains.
Anyone have any ideas how I might troubleshoot this one?
Many thanks

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Re: Mouse & Keyboard - not working on login

Post by chlowden007 » 2022/11/21 19:01:05

Centos 7.6

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Re: Mouse & Keyboard - not working on login

Post by TrevorH » 2022/11/21 19:45:52

CentOS 7.6 is more than 4 years out of date. You need to yum update to 7.9. Probably won't fix your issue but running old versions is unsupported. Check that the xorg-x11-drv-evdev package is installed.
The future appears to be RHEL or Debian. I think I'm going Debian.
Info for USB installs on http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey
CentOS 5 and 6 are deadest, do not use them.
Use the FAQ Luke

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Re: Mouse & Keyboard - not working on login

Post by chlowden007 » 2022/11/28 06:41:59

Hello Trevor
After much fiddling around, it seems that the machine needed a nvidia upgrade. The nvidia driver was failing and blocking the mouse and keyboard from loading.
Many thanks your help

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