Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 14:24:12 -0400 (EDT) From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Mark Dixon <mark@markdnet.demon.co.uk> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GDM ignoring keyboard input (mostly) Message-ID: <20030426142116.T59275@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <3EAAB499.2040203@markdnet.demon.co.uk> References: <3EAA4781.1090803@markdnet.demon.co.uk> <3EAAB499.2040203@markdnet.demon.co.uk>
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On Sat, 26 Apr 2003, Mark Dixon wrote: > 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. Then I have not seen this problem on my -CURRENT machine or on my -STABLE machines (3 of them). What type of keyboard is it? How do you have it configured in XF86Config? Have you tried copying /usr/X11R6/etc/gdm/factory-gdm.conf to /usr/X11R6/etc/gdm.conf, and see if that helps? Joe > > Mark > > > > PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc
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