Hi, additionally to my GRUB problem, GDM does not accept any keystroke at all, nada nothing, after updating to 6.1-PRERELEASE. I am using XDM for now. Any ideas here?
> From owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Wed Mar 29 16:42:48 2006 > From: Norbert Augenstein <norbert@augenstein.net> > To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org > Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 17:42:07 +0200 > Subject: cannot type in GDM after installworld ... > > Hi, > > additionally to my GRUB problem, GDM does not accept any keystroke at > all, nada nothing, after updating to 6.1-PRERELEASE. > I am using XDM for now. > Any ideas here?Yes, I had a similar problem. Perhaps the same. GDM's allocation of a VT may conflict with getty. In the configuration file, there's a parameter which is FirstVT with default value 9. He'll try to use, by default, ttyv8 as its VT. Sometimes, he'll get it before getty does. Then it works. Sometimes, he get's it afterwards and you get that strange conflict. I used to have all VTs until ttva enabled in /etc/ttys, so this would conflict with GDM's default configuration file. If this is your case, try these two solutions: 1- change FirstVT to a diferent (higher) value 2- disable all VTs below 9 in /etc/ttys I chose the second solution, because GDM can use more than one VT, enabling several users of the same console to be logged in graphically and simultaneously. -- Miguel Ramos GnuPG ID 0xA006A14C
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2006-Mar-29 18:46 UTC
cannot type in GDM after installworld ...
> From owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Wed Mar 29 16:42:48 2006 > From: Norbert Augenstein <norbert@augenstein.net> > To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org > Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 17:42:07 +0200 > Subject: cannot type in GDM after installworld ... > > Hi, > > additionally to my GRUB problem, GDM does not accept any keystroke at > all, nada nothing, after updating to 6.1-PRERELEASE. > I am using XDM for now. > Any ideas here?Yes, I had a similar problem. Perhaps the same. GDM's allocation of a VT may conflict with getty. In the configuration file, there's a parameter which is FirstVT with default value 9. He'll try to use, by default, ttyv8 as its VT. Sometimes, he'll get it before getty does. Then it works. Sometimes, he get's it afterwards and you get that strange conflict. I used to have all VTs until ttva enabled in /etc/ttys, so this would conflict with GDM's default configuration file. If this is your case, try these two solutions: 1- change FirstVT to a diferent (higher) value 2- disable all VTs below 9 in /etc/ttys I chose the second solution, because GDM can use more than one VT, enabling several users of the same console to be logged in graphically and simultaneously. -- Miguel Ramos GnuPG ID 0xA006A14C