Mint boot problems

[koder]

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?
>