Not sure if mint is exactly the same, but using "apt-get install
kubuntu-desktop" or kde-base metapackages might be path of least
resistance.
I really wanted mint, especiall debian edition to work out as I almost
loathe ubuntu these days, but sadly it's still more wrecked than ubuntu
for real usage, at least until you replace unity.
-mb
On 12/29/2014 07:12 PM, koder wrote:
> I will have to set something up to log onto it, but I think I can do it.
>
> Lacking that KDE, as suggested, may be the second best option.
>
> I will let you know, it will probably take a couple of days.
>
> Harold
>
>
> On 12/29/2014 10:04 AM, Matt Graham wrote:
>> On 2014-12-28 20:57, koder wrote:
>> [problems with Mint not always recognizing that there's a USB
>> keyboard and mouse plugged in]
>>> Here is the current boot, obviously successful:
>> [much snippage]
>>
>> There's nothing in those logs that makes success/failure obvious to
>> me though. I took both dmesg logs and did a "grep -2 -i usb" on
>> them. The USB subsystem messages were almost identical. Both logs
>> showed that the keyboard was on 3-1 and the mouse was on 3-2, and
>> that they were both claimed by the usbhid module.
>>
>> Are these devices plugged in to the machine directly, or are they
>> connected to a hub? I've had flaky hubs cause this sort of
>> intermittent problem. Or is this an X11 problem? Can you ssh into
>> this machine from another box when it's showing the problem, and see
>> if the mouse is visible with "lsusb" and have a look at
>> /var/log/Xorg.0.log for keyboard/mouse errors?
>>
>
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