On 12/24/2013 09:48 PM, Felmon Davis wrote:
> the trouble is that booting into the gui causes touchpad and mouse to freeze
> at the login screen, requiring a reboot.

If I understand correctly, the display manager is running things at that
point.  So the first thing I'd try is a different display manager, like
lightdm or gdm instead of kdm-trinity.

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