Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2004 13:40:34 -0500 (CDT) From: Conrad Sabatier <conrads@cox.net> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gdm -- keyboard disabled Message-ID: <XFMail.20040606134034.conrads@cox.net> In-Reply-To: <1086546560.34425.10.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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On 06-Jun-2004 Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > On Sun, 2004-06-06 at 14:25, Conrad Sabatier wrote: >> I've already checked the archives re: this issue, but if anyone posted a >> resolution to the problem, I didn't see it. >> >> If I use the gmd.sh script in /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d to start gdm at boot time, >> the keyboard refuses to work. I can't even switch to a console to see >> what's >> going on, or reset the system with Ctrl-Alt-Delete; the keyboard just goes >> completely dead. >> >> This is under a freshly updated 5.2-CURRENT, with a freshly updated GNOME >> 2.6.1 >> install. >> >> Anyone know what's going on with this? > > If this is a GNOME 2.4 upgrade, Yes, it is. I recently setup a whole new install of FreeBSD (after tinkering for a few days with Debian, for reasons I won't bore you with here). Initial install of GNOME was 2.4, mostly from packages, followed by a later upgrade to 2.6. > make sure you're using the factory > gdm.conf. You may also want to reinstall gnomecontrolcenter2 then > libgnome to see if that helps. Also, make sure gdm is not linked to any > old libraries in /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg. OK, I'll check all that out and get back to you. Thanks. -- Conrad Sabatier <conrads@cox.net> - "In Unix veritas"
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