Xorg hangs on first boot

Dmitry Morozovsky marck at rinet.ru
Sat Jan 31 01:26:31 PST 2009


On Sat, 31 Jan 2009, Johannes Dieterich wrote:

JD> | yes, I'm the next person to report Xorg upgrade problems ;)
JD> |
JD> | After thorough upgrade (ugh!!!) almost all work as expected, except
JD> one thing:
JD> |
JD> | on initial machine boot, X starts, gdm executes -- and then this
JD> console is not
JD> | responded to either keyboard or mouse; however, I can switch to text
JD> console,
JD> | log in and kill X server. After that, everything works correctly.
JD> |
JD> | Any hints? Thank you in advance.
JD> 
JD> Just an idea: I saw excactly this behaviour with my keyboard and mouse
JD> (both USB, is this the case for you?) Setting
JD> 
JD> Option "AllowEmptyInput" "off"
JD> 
JD> in xorg.conf as described in UPDATING solved it for me (despite that it
JD> should not be needed anymore at all and especially not for keyboards.. :-) )

Nope, that's not my case, as I have PS/2 input devices and do have enabled 
dbus/hald (I use gnome, so they were enabled anyway)

-- 
Sincerely,
D.Marck                                     [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
[ FreeBSD committer:                                 marck at FreeBSD.org ]
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