Keyboard and mouse unresponsive for first few minutes

[mjdempsey]

I also had the 7 minute wait. I could move the cursor, but the mouse buttons and keyboard were unresponsive. Not just on reboot, but also when I tried to change users. I originally thought I had nothing at all because I was too impatient at first to wait that long. Then I saw this thread, waited and found I had the 7 minute timeout too. Which seems like an eternity when you're sitting and waiting.

In an attempt to fix it, I applied the USB rollback from the latest MultiBeast (3.8), but then I had no cursor movement at all (i.e. no USB). I booted into the Installer and saw that the USB kexts that were supposed to be replaced were simply deleted. I copied the USB kexts from the Installer drive to my Lion drive and fixed permissions with Disk Utility. After rebooting and waiting 7 min, I used an older version of MultiBeast (3.5.1), and applied USB rollback. This time it worked. I rebooted and had mouse and keyboard right away. I've been happily Lion-ing ever since.

 

[denzo]

LOL...you guys are waaaaay more patient than I am! I think I only ever managed to wait three minutes and my k/b and mouse didn't start working again so I'd try rebooting...and now I reinstalled SL & Lion only to have my k/b & mouse become unresponsive again after a few restarts. I will most likely rollback to SL and keep an eye on this thread hoping for a fix.

 

[jxvenus]

the SAME problem, Zotac H55 itx, i3 530, GT 210, apple G6 keyboard, mx revolution bluetooth mouse

 

[EasyViber]

I have/had same problem. First Lion boot goes fine, then I've removed ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin.kext (it caused some KP) and installed NVDAGF100Hal.kext from http://www.kexts.com/view/1567-gtx_560_ ... .7_gm.html

I got my MSI 560 Ti Hawk working fine with all fancy accelerations, but with unresponsive mouse/keyboard - they start to work after 2 minutes.

Then I've removed NVDAGF100Hal.kext and after 2 reboots I got mouse and keyboard working immediately after login, but only at 1024x768 pixels.

Could it be that NVDAGF100Hal is causing this?

UPDATE:
I've reinstalled NVDAGF100Hal.kext and problem returned.

 

[EasyViber]

most of us affected with this problem use nVidia cards with patched kexts so I would say we should look for problem there. Now I have dual screen system and in first two minutes I can move mouse but I can't move it to other screen. After about two minutes this happens (copied from console):

8/7/11 8:22:40.000 PM kernel: IOSurface: buffer allocation size is zero
8/7/11 8:24:08.000 PM kernel: IOHIDSystem: postEvent LLEventQueue overflow.
8/7/11 8:24:12.167 PM WindowServer: Unable to open IOHIDSystem (e00002bd)
8/7/11 8:24:12.000 PM kernel: virtual bool IOHIDEventSystemUserClient::initWithTask(task*, void*, UInt32): Client task not privileged to open IOHIDSystem for mapping memory (e00002c1)

display slightly changes colors and I can move cursor to other screen and click around.

 

[lukarak]

Same problem for me as well.
I'm running a system with a GTX 580, and i think that's the reason. I cloned the drive for a machine with a GTX 480, replaced the kexts (patched nvidia kexts) and audio ones and it works like a charm.

So, i belive it's the modifications to the nvidia files that cause this.
It would be nice if somebody with a little more experience would take a look at this, there are a lot of people with this problem.

 

[Tricktech]

most of us affected with this problem use nVidia cards with patched kexts so I would say we should look for problem there. Now I have dual screen system and in first two minutes I can move mouse but I can't move it to other screen. After about two minutes this happens (copied from console):

8/7/11 8:22:40.000 PM kernel: IOSurface: buffer allocation size is zero
8/7/11 8:24:08.000 PM kernel: IOHIDSystem: postEvent LLEventQueue overflow.
8/7/11 8:24:12.167 PM WindowServer: Unable to open IOHIDSystem (e00002bd)
8/7/11 8:24:12.000 PM kernel: virtual bool IOHIDEventSystemUserClient::initWithTask(task*, void*, UInt32): Client task not privileged to open IOHIDSystem for mapping memory (e00002c1)

display slightly changes colors and I can move cursor to other screen and click around.

I do not. In fact, With my GTX470 in the box, I never bothered to get the graphics working pre 10.6.8 and even then I installed Nvidia's Native Cuda Driver and it was working beautifully. Same thing with Lion - the Cuda driver is the only thing in regards to video I have touched.

My issue is the 2 minute variety - everything works perfectly... after a 2 minute wait NEARLY every time I reboot. The weird thing is, it doesn't happen every time and I cant figure out why... rebuilding a cache? IDK.

 

[gotojanoo]

i had the same issue ,after bootup 7 minutes delay time .can not click or can not use keyboard for 7-8 min. I read somewhere that some of the usb devises made a mess ,so i pulled out my usb bluetooth dongle and its works great now no delay at all.Hope this can help

 

[lukarak]

i had the same issue ,after bootup 7 minutes delay time .can not click or can not use keyboard for 7-8 min. I read somewhere that some of the usb devises made a mess ,so i pulled out my usb bluetooth dongle and its works great now no delay at all.Hope this can help

Thankyou thankyout hankyou. It now works Didn't even notice the dongle as it is on the back and really tiny

 

[EasyViber]

I've got it working after restoring all kexts from Lion installation and repatching NVDAGF100Hal.kext. I won't touch that again if I don't have to.