| Summary: | Does not receive keyboard input: cannot log in. | ||
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| Product: | [Unmaintained] kdm | Reporter: | jsabater |
| Component: | general | Assignee: | kdm bugs tracker <kdm-bugs-null> |
| Status: | CLOSED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | mrmazda |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Debian testing | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
| Sentry Crash Report: | |||
there could be multiple reasons: - the xserver is started while the gettys are not up yet. that causes a race for the vt which leaves you with a wedged keyboard. the solution is to make sure the display manager is started late enough or adding "vt7" at the end of the server line in Xservers. - the nvidia driver is plainly broken. - another (possibly debian-specific) x(-server) problem occured. in this case you should report this to debian (chris says "do it") and/or xfree. in any case this is not a kdm problem by itself; it's only triggered by kdm and i can't do much about it. I am having the problem described here on SuSE 9.1 and KDE 3.2.1. It began only after recent online updates. My video is Tseng. How do I do what is described in comment 1 "start late enough"? Which Xservers is the correct file to examine? My system has 4 of these. /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers does refer to vt7, but I can find no "server line". |
(*** This bug was imported into bugs.kde.org ***) Package: kdm Version: KDE 3.0.2 Severity: normal Installed from: Debian testing/unstable Packages Compiler: 2.95 I guess OS: Linux OS/Compiler notes: Cheeney's packages which are not yet in Debian unstable When starting my computer kdm loads successfully but I cannot input any data from my keyboard. The server seems not to be receiving keypresses but if I choose "Console login" then everything seems ok. The same problem happens with xdm which in fact happened to me when installing XFree86 4.1. I could override it by deleting my Option XkbRules "xfree86" line in /etc/XF86Config-4. A few days after I tried to add that Option again and it worked! So I believe the X server is not receiving input from keyboard at kdm login but it's very strange since it does if I go to console log in and then start it using startx script. I have tried with two keyboards an Acer 6312-TA (ext 4S) and an old one (using an adapter to PS/2): both are behaving the same way. My motherboard is a Gigabyte 7VRX using VIA KT333 chipset. I am using X-Free86 4.1 with kernel 2.4.19-rc1 with XFS and preemptive patches. I have got a Nvidia GeForce2 Ti 200 and I am using Nvidia drivers which seem to work fine ("nvidia" driver in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4). Thanks in advance. (Submitted via bugs.kde.org)