gdm problem with kernel as of 2005-01-04

[Paul T. Root]

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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