Comment 68 for bug 254840

I updated this morning (actually, I rebooted this morning when I woke up and the update manager said it had downloaded an important security update and needed to be restarted), and now I have no keyboard or mouse. I'm on an Acer Aspire 3680 Laptop, 1.66 gHz Intel Celeron M, 2 Gb RAM. Currently, I'm forced to run on the live CD to be able to post this, but that's not an acceptable option for long term. I've tried several different fixes mentioned in the forums, but nothing seems to work. I've tried using apt to update/upgrade/dist-upgrade and autoremove, to no avail...I've tried the xserver-xorg-input-all tip, and nothing...of course, since I'm doing it all through the Live CD, I don't know if any of it is actually getting to my hard drive. I'm reaching the end of my rope here...thinking about chucking this paperweight out the window and going to get an abacus...snail-mail, I'm coming home!

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated!

ubuntu@ubuntu:/media/disk$ sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-input-all
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
xserver-xorg-input-all is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.