Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 17:32:25 +0100 From: Mark Dixon <mark@markdnet.demon.co.uk> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GDM ignoring keyboard input (mostly) Message-ID: <3EAAB499.2040203@markdnet.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <1051372763.54325.6.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> References: <3EAA4781.1090803@markdnet.demon.co.uk> <1051372763.54325.6.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: >On Sat, 2003-04-26 at 04:46, Mark Dixon wrote: > > >>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. Mark
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