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pamu

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Registered: 2017-03-25

Posts: 27

Re: Mouse and Keyboard do not work after installation of Q4OS

Having some experience with HP BIOS updates for machines of that period I'd suggest the first choice would be to simply reset the BIOS to defaults and see if that helps.

This would be a good suggestion (Thanks bin ) to start with.

After resetting your bios if the mouse/keyboard still lock out you will need to boot into your live usb and mount the HDD installation to edit the file /etc/default/grub. find the line that says

GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE=hidden

and put a # at the beginning of that line so it reads

#GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE=hidden

and change the line that says

GRUB_TIMEOUT=1

to read

GRUB_TIMEOUT=5

then run the command

sudo update-grub

This will allow you to access the grub menu when the computer starts, after rebooting to your laptop installation you can select to boot into recovery mode, this will allow you to install xserver module to your system.

When the grub screen displays use the keys (will be working at this point) to select "Advanced Options..." and then select recovery mode.
This will place you at a root terminal.
bring up network card with

ifconfig eth0 up

enable dhcp with

dhclient eth0

Wait a minute until connection is made.
Now update apt

sudo apt-get update

Now install xserver module

sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-openchrome

after this you can reboot your machine (without usb).

Let us know if it works.

The only part I can edit the boot or the options I see with grub are:
                                               

                                   {
        laod_video
        insmod gzio

         if [x$grub_platform = xxen] then insmod xzio; insmod lzo\
pio; fi
         insmod part_msdos
         insmod ext2
         set root='hd0,msdos1'
         if [x$feature_platform_search_hit=xy]; then search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd0,m\

I dont write everything...

Dai_trying

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From: UK

Registered: 2015-12-14

Posts: 2,989

Re: Mouse and Keyboard do not work after installation of Q4OS

I have edited the instructions, please go to the section marked with ### and proceed.

pamu

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Registered: 2017-03-25

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Re: Mouse and Keyboard do not work after installation of Q4OS

If I understand you well, I will do this while having the USB on the computer. And when I type ifconfig eth0 up (0 is zero here), the internet cable has to be connected on the computer, right?

Dai_trying

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From: UK

Registered: 2015-12-14

Posts: 2,989

Re: Mouse and Keyboard do not work after installation of Q4OS

If I understand you well, I will do this while having the USB on the computer.

No this is not required here.

And when I type ifconfig eth0 up (0 is zero here), the internet cable has to be connected on the computer, right?

Yes,you will need network connection.

pamu

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Registered: 2017-03-25

Posts: 27

Re: Mouse and Keyboard do not work after installation of Q4OS

I don't know what is wrong, anyway. I give up... I have done as it says.  xserver is updated, but nothing changes. Now I just need to buy a USB keyboard and see if it will work. Thanks for  your help so far

Dai_trying

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From: UK

Registered: 2015-12-14

Posts: 2,989

Re: Mouse and Keyboard do not work after installation of Q4OS

You are welcome

There is one more thing you could try, if you download the Scorpion (testing) version of Q4OS you could see if that would work. It has newer kernel and accepts more devices natively.

In case you decide to try it here is the download page. It can be burned to usb the same way as you did the Orion image. You will notice there is only a live-cd image available so just select the 32bit link.

bin

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From: U.K.

Registered: 2016-01-28

Posts: 1,300

Re: Mouse and Keyboard do not work after installation of Q4OS

Just going to chuck in my 4 pen'th here.

This machine was well supported on Mint 9 / SLED 10 and others of that era. It apparently ran fine out of the box apart from Broadcom wifi on Mint 9 which would suggest that later kernels and modules may be an issue. As I know from bitter experience my 2006/2007 HPs are unable to work with anything later than 'buntu 14 / Debian Jessie.

It may be worth grabbing lxle 12.04 https://sourceforge.net/projects/lxle/f … o/download while you can as it goes off support Real Soon Now.

If it works than it may help point the way.

pamu

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Registered: 2017-03-25

Posts: 27

Re: Mouse and Keyboard do not work after installation of Q4OS

Thanks. The mouse and keyboard work perfectly in lxle, but chromium can't install in it. It's asking me to check my internet connection while I am connected 100% with my wire ok.

pamu

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Registered: 2017-03-25

Posts: 27

Re: Mouse and Keyboard do not work after installation of Q4OS

I made it now. I had to update and install a bunch of packages at the same time. Then I got it installed to. I am happy though it doesn't look cool as q4os

Dai_trying

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From: UK

Registered: 2015-12-14

Posts: 2,989

Re: Mouse and Keyboard do not work after installation of Q4OS

You got a working machine, that's the main thing and good call bin, that was a 4 pen'th well spent.

bin

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From: U.K.

Registered: 2016-01-28

Posts: 1,300

Re: Mouse and Keyboard do not work after installation of Q4OS

that's just the start.

Head on over to Trinity Desktop and you can install KDE3 Trinity using the instructions on their site for Ubuntu 12.04 https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/UbuntuInstall

Enjoy!!!