Mouse and Keyboard not Working at Login Screen
Posted: 2018/07/11 04:38:37
In trying to update my NVidia drivers somehow I screwed up my mouse and keyboard, I'm not sure how this even makes sense considering I only made changes to NVidia files/packages.
Background: I originally had elrepo packages managing my NVidia drivers, but when I tried to go and update the drivers, there was a conflict that I couldn't figure out how to fix, so I just tried to update the package using the NVidia website's provided download, in hopes that that would override the issues I was facing with elrepo.
Where I'm at: After installing the drivers, I restarted, arrived at the login screen, and mouse and keyboard don't work anymore. I initially thought the screen froze, but if I watch the clock at the top, I can see that the clock is still ticking and the time is still advancing, so the system isn't frozen. Which I can also assume that the NVidia drivers are working ok as well, since, well, there's a GUI. I then tried rebooting into multi-user.target mode and am able to type commands in that mode, so it's something that happens between multi-user.target and graphical.target mode.
My question: What steps can I take to solve this issue? I'm not even sure where to start. How do people usually go about investigating and solving problems on Linux? (I'm still fairly new to linux)
Thank you
Background: I originally had elrepo packages managing my NVidia drivers, but when I tried to go and update the drivers, there was a conflict that I couldn't figure out how to fix, so I just tried to update the package using the NVidia website's provided download, in hopes that that would override the issues I was facing with elrepo.
Where I'm at: After installing the drivers, I restarted, arrived at the login screen, and mouse and keyboard don't work anymore. I initially thought the screen froze, but if I watch the clock at the top, I can see that the clock is still ticking and the time is still advancing, so the system isn't frozen. Which I can also assume that the NVidia drivers are working ok as well, since, well, there's a GUI. I then tried rebooting into multi-user.target mode and am able to type commands in that mode, so it's something that happens between multi-user.target and graphical.target mode.
My question: What steps can I take to solve this issue? I'm not even sure where to start. How do people usually go about investigating and solving problems on Linux? (I'm still fairly new to linux)
Thank you