From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 26 09:33:30 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CCFF37B40B; Sat, 26 Apr 2003 09:33:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from quicksilver.ukc.ac.uk (quicksilver.ukc.ac.uk [129.12.21.11]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DCBD43F75; Sat, 26 Apr 2003 09:33:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@markdnet.demon.co.uk) Received: from stue9f4.ukc.ac.uk ([129.12.233.244] helo=markdnet.demon.co.uk) by quicksilver.ukc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #4) id 199SbT-0003cB-00; Sat, 26 Apr 2003 17:32:43 +0100 Message-ID: <3EAAB499.2040203@markdnet.demon.co.uk> Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 17:32:25 +0100 From: Mark Dixon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030420 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joe Marcus Clarke References: <3EAA4781.1090803@markdnet.demon.co.uk> <1051372763.54325.6.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <1051372763.54325.6.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-UKC-Mail-System: No virus detected cc: FreeBSD GNOME Users cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GDM ignoring keyboard input (mostly) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 16:33:30 -0000 Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: >On Sat, 2003-04-26 at 04:46, Mark Dixon wrote: > > >>Hi, >> >>My 5.0-CURRENT system is having difficulties. When it boots up, it >>starts GDM automatically, but most of the time, GDM (X/ gnome?) >>completely forgets about the keyboard. This means that its impossible to >>enter a username, or move to a termial (Ctrl-Alt-x). The only key >>combination that does work is ctrl-alt-del (I'm on i386, btw). I rebuilt >>current a few days ago, but thet didn't seem to make any difference, and >>all my X / Gnome2 related ports have been portupgraded. >> >>The keyboard _is_ working, as booting up in single user mode, or not >>starting gdm works fine. On the odd occasiom, gdm does work as well. >>There doesn't seem to be much logic to it. >> >>Has anyone seen anything like this? Anyone know whats going wrong? >> >> > >How are you starting GDM? > Its installed via the port and starts from /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d/gdm.sh which is basically gdm.sh.sample renamed. Mark