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Date:      26 Apr 2003 11:59:24 -0400
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        Mark Dixon <mark@markdnet.demon.co.uk>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: GDM ignoring keyboard input (mostly)
Message-ID:  <1051372763.54325.6.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
In-Reply-To: <3EAA4781.1090803@markdnet.demon.co.uk>
References:  <3EAA4781.1090803@markdnet.demon.co.uk>

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On Sat, 2003-04-26 at 04:46, Mark Dixon wrote:
> Hi,
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> My 5.0-CURRENT system is having difficulties. When it boots up, it=20
> starts GDM automatically, but most of the time, GDM (X/ gnome?)=20
> completely forgets about the keyboard. This means that its impossible to=20
> enter a username, or move to a termial (Ctrl-Alt-x). The only key=20
> combination that does work is ctrl-alt-del (I'm on i386, btw). I rebuilt=20
> current a few days ago, but thet didn't seem to make any difference, and=20
> all my X / Gnome2 related ports have been portupgraded.
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> The keyboard _is_ working, as booting up in single user mode, or not=20
> starting gdm works fine. On the odd occasiom, gdm does work as well.=20
> There doesn't seem to be much logic to it.
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> Has anyone seen anything like this? Anyone know whats going wrong?

How are you starting GDM?

Joe

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> Mark
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