Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 11:15:09 -0600 From: "Paul T. Root" <ptroot@iaces.com> To: Richard Kuhns <rjk@wintek.com> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gdm problem with kernel as of 2005-01-04 Message-ID: <43BEA59D.3060206@iaces.com> In-Reply-To: <43BD90E9.3020305@wintek.com> References: <43BD90E9.3020305@wintek.com>
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I'm in at work and turned off gdm in my rc.conf and rebooted.
The keyboard works fine! Then manually starting gdm and it
still works. That's great.
I think that something happened in the rc files that makes it
start earlier and that's conflicting with something that freezes
the keyboard.
Richard Kuhns wrote:
> I just finished a buildworld/buildkernel/mergemaster on my Dell Inspiron
> 9300. Upon rebooting, I noticed that gdm seemed to start earlier in the
> boot process than it used to. When the login screen appeared, the mouse
> seemed to work fine, but nothing I typed appeared. Attempting to use
> C-A-F1 to switch to vty0 just beeped. C-A-Del worked to reboot the
> laptop. I booted single user, commented out gdm_enable="YES" in
> /etc/rc.conf, and rebooted -- everything was fine. I put the gdm_enable
> back and ran /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d/gdm.sh start -- gdm started, fully
> functional.
>
> I rebooted again -- gdm ignored the keyboard.
>
> After several reboots, I've found that gdm seems to work fine as long as
> I don't have 'gdm_enable="YES"' in /etc/rc.conf when the machine boots.
>
> I've just finished upgrading gdm (using portmanager); still the same
> problem.
>
> If anyone has suggestions/wants me to try anything, just say so.
>
> Thanks!
> - Rich
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