From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 9 02:37:24 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EDA216A41F for ; Mon, 9 Jan 2006 02:37:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bg271828@yahoo.com) Received: from web53411.mail.yahoo.com (web53411.mail.yahoo.com [206.190.39.71]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9E1A643D58 for ; Mon, 9 Jan 2006 02:37:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bg271828@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 92130 invoked by uid 60001); 9 Jan 2006 02:37:21 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=1WyougNLX7M4DRG/k6szmOrOefXbATCS+Ir60ROvr0ghpyRMJDdANkxLVr38hodx8QGlgRNeiWcDUrxfG1OVLcgtyA+QbTWsJ6xZlrdTbKGcygGRqkhGw29Akn6mnNrEkcpILxSts7HRAQVK4DxKr9qEtxzerYBFhqnK74ipVs8= ; Message-ID: <20060109023721.92128.qmail@web53411.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [66.108.252.187] by web53411.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sun, 08 Jan 2006 18:37:21 PST Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2006 18:37:21 -0800 (PST) From: "Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum" To: Patrick Ziegler In-Reply-To: <1136459016.25452.13.camel@puck> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Urgent: Can't type in gdm after system upgrade X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2006 02:37:24 -0000 Sorry for the slow answer but i was away and had to bring a Windoze machine because i coudnt get my FreeBSD working before i left... This still didnt work. i already had VTAllocation=false with the FirstVT line commented outin my gdm.conf but no combination of playing with these values or commenting them out worked. What else can i try? (someone else said this didnt work in amd64--i did want to say that im running on Intel.) Jen Patrick Ziegler wrote: Hi, i had the same problem and could fix it by comment the following two lines out in gdm.conf: FirstVT=9 VTAllocation=true Bye, Ziggo Am Mittwoch, den 04.01.2006, 19:35 -0800 schrieb Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum: > i just upgraded my system from FreeBSD-6.0-RELEASE to 6.0-STABLE. i didn't > touch any ports, just base system, and after i made the new kernel i rebooted > to test it before installing world and this worked fine. > > After installing world and running mergemaster, i rebooted and cant type > anything in gdm!The mouse works fine but nothing from the keyboard. > so i rebooted to the console [is there a way to drop from gdm to a console? > when i try gdm automaticly re-starts], turned off gdm, and ran 'startx' and > IT works so i know this is a Gnome problem not a X problem. > > Then i force rebuilded gdm but that didnt work. im running Gnome-2.12, > everything is up to date. What can i try next? Help! > > Jen --------------------------------- Yahoo! DSL Something to write home about. Just $16.99/mo. or less