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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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