GDM ignoring keyboard input (mostly)

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Sat, 26 Apr 2003, Mark Dixon wrote:

> Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
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> >On Sat, 2003-04-26 at 04:46, Mark Dixon wrote:
> >
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> >>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

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