Sounds like a loose connection problem..not totally
loose, just getting there. Check the
connection/plug/whatever from the panel that holds the
mouse/kb connector to the mother board. Could that be
loose or have bad solder connection? Possibly when you
'hit' the power button, it makes a connection.m The
plug may be bad on the motherboard side, but both? not
likely at the same time.
Have you tried other kb's/mice?
Tried a livecd and seen if the problem goes away
w/different distro?
Check the bios settings, and make sure that it wants a
kb there. be sure to 'save and exit' after setting the
fact it needs a keyboard. Bios might be 'flakey' ..
hope not.
Just ideas.
Good luck.
--- Michael <
bmike101@cox.net> wrote:
> This reminds me:
>
> About haf the times I start my computer my keyboard
> and mouse won't work. The
> only thing I can do is hit the power button. Any
> ideas what the problem might
> be?
>
> On Saturday 20 May 2006 16:24, Alan Gore wrote:
> > Thanks for the help last week on my problem with
> getting remote VNC
> > access to a new SUSE installation. I found that my
> problem was an
> > overenthusiastic SUSE firewall. Although I checked
> the firewall port
> > open options when I opted in YaST for enabling the
> VNC ("Remote KDE
> > desktop") server. There must be a bug that is
> causing the wrong port
> > to be opened for VNC. I should be able to go into
> YaST firewall
> > configuration and manually open port 5900.
> >
> > But I've hot a new problem: suddenly, KDE can't
> see m keyboard. It
> > doesn't see any characters I enter, except that
> the Alt-F4
> > combination, which used to close the current
> window, now pops me out
> > to a kernel login. The keyboard works fine here,
> so I know it's not
> > my hardware.
> >
> > Wiyjout a keyboard in KDE, I can't enter the root
> password needed to
> > get into YaST to reconfigure the firewall. This
> prevents me from
> > getting VNC access back. Is there a way of
> disabling the firewall
> > without a keyboard, or from he kernel login in
> which my keyboard stll
> > works?
> >
> >
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