Laptop mouse pad and keyboard stop working on UI load.

[muzle6074]

Hello forum,

I am hoping someone can help me with my problem:

I have installed BackTrack 4 R2 to a partition on my laptop. My problem is that once the UI loads my mouse pad and keyboard stop working. If I boot off the CD everything works fine although this is not desirable because reading off a CD can be slow at times.

Earlier today I installed BackTrack to VMware and that worked fine also. The reason why I stopped using VMware is because I later found out the guest OS cannot use my wireless adapter.

My laptop is a NEC Versa L2200.

If you have any suggestions or questions please let me know!

Regards

[sickness]

You can try one of these two commands see if either will solve the problem:

fix-vesa
dpkg-reconfigure

[efarhan]

You can try one of these two commands see if either will solve the problem:

fix-vesa
dpkg-reconfigure

Hi,

it seems that it works on ps/2 instead and not usb...i plugged in and the keyboard works..but the usb mouse still doesnt move..and i did the fix-vesa thing..ok...but the dpkg-reconfigure requires sumthing more...it asks to dpkg-reconfigure WHAT ???

[sickness]

Oh I apologize I seem to have written that command incomplete, the correct command is:

dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

Try it.

[efarhan]

Oh I apologize I seem to have written that command incomplete, the correct command is:

dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

Try it.

but the funny thing is, the keyboard and mouse works before the 'install.sh' step...then after that..pooff...everything doesnt seem to work and it hangs...

EDIT: It works man ! thanks