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

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