mouse and keyboard not working

HI, I've tried to run several live CD's (Ubuntu, PCLinuxOS, Mandriva) and one embedded on a flash drive (DSL) but all of them have the same problem. When booting I can select from the boot menu (run live cd or whatever) with the keyboard, but when the desktop (in DSL) or the set up menus appear (PCLinuxOS and Mandriva) the mouse and keyboard simply do not work. The mouse cursor remains in the centre of the screen and the lock keys (num, scroll and caps) have no effect on the indicator lights. they are both regular ps/2 items, the motherboard is an ASRock K7S8X and I've got a Nvidia GeForce FX5200 Does anyone know why this may be happening and how I can fix it? thanks in advance.

I've seen this problem with USB devices, but not with PS/2 devices. Use the acpi=off option when booting.

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it looks like I may have a solution. I've aquired a USB mouse, when plugging that in the mouse works, although the keyboard still does not. It seems my system does not like PS/2 and I may have to find a USB keyboard to get it working.

[quote=alpinesatan.com] have you followed sharma's advice??? Kind Regards[/quote] yes, but couldn't get anywhere. not sure what happened but just ended up in a command line environment, no GUI or anything I recognised.

yes

before you do that, have you got anyother devices plugged in??? like usb printer for example

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[quote=alpinesatan.com]in that case have a look at this http://linuxconsole.sourceforge.net/quick.html#download If your new to this kinda thing read carefully.[/quote] could be difficult typing in the commands if the keyboard's not working though [Modified by: celticJedi on December 29, 2007 06:11 PM]

thanks you