[sidecar71]

Anyone else have this problem? We recently upgraded to 10.2.6 on a 400 MHz PowerPC G4 and have to unplug and replug the keyboard after every start-up because we dont get any response from the mouse or the keyboard in the login screen. Is there a work-around for this?

[reader50]

Plugging the keyboard and mouse in after startup forces the drivers to load. This means the drivers either didn't load during bootup, or were unloaded for whatever reason.

Your OS install could be glitched up (possible), your HD could have some damage (more likely - run DiskFirstAid), or you have a damaged .plist preference file somewhere, that the early boot system can't handle. If the last were the case, delete some preference files.

You can check the system bootup log to see where the USB drivers should have loaded, and if they unloaded:

/Mac HD/private/var/log/system.log

[sidecar71]

Originally posted by reader50:
Plugging the keyboard and mouse in after startup forces the drivers to load. This means the drivers either didn't load during bootup, or were unloaded for whatever reason.

Your OS install could be glitched up (possible), your HD could have some damage (more likely - run DiskFirstAid), or you have a damaged .plist preference file somewhere, that the early boot system can't handle. If the last were the case, delete some preference files.

You can check the system bootup log to see where the USB drivers should have loaded, and if they unloaded:

/Mac HD/private/var/log/system.log

Wow...great. A lot of very useful info there.

Thanks a lot.
Ben