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 -- Richard Kuhns Wintek Corporation E-mail: rjk@wintek.com 427 N 6th Street Tel: +1 (765) 742-8428 Lafayette, IN 47901-1126 Fax: +1 (765) 742-0646 United States of America
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-- ______ Paul T. Root / _ \ 1977 MGB / /|| \\ ||\/ || _ | || || || \ ||__// \______/
On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 04:34:33PM -0500, Richard Kuhns wrote:> If anyone has suggestions/wants me to try anything, just say so.Yes, you can solve this problem by changing your /usr/X11R6/etc/gdm/gdm.conf. You have to change the setting for VTAllocation: VTAllocation=true bye, Uwe