I'm running potato and till recently was running XDM with login.app to give the login screen a nice clean look. Then GDM (Gnome Display Manager) showed up in unstable so i grabbed it. Next time i rebooted, it gave me the gnome login screen and my mouse works, but for some odd reason it disables my keyboard. The kb works through bootup but once it goes to the gdm login screen my led lights won't even come on & off. The only possible thing i can think of that i might have done was put login.app into the wrong runlevel or something...when i initially installed login.app it tried to configure before X and XDM were configured so it told me to configure later with some config script somewhere. When it ran, it asked me which runlevel to put login.app into. I know nothing about runlevels, and was given the options 2345 ...i chose 2. When i decided to install GDM i removed login.app fearing problems; when i removed it, it spit some things out about the runlevel stuff. I don't remember what this said nor do i have any idea what it meant. Anyway, i simply went in with a boot disk, renamed gdm within init.d to prevent it from booting, and then removed GDM, Login.app, and XDM altogether within dselect. This has thusfar solved my problem; however, i sure would like to be able to have some freedom in choosing xdm, login.app, and gdm without worrying about this. Is it simply a bug in GDM? I suppose i'll see...
_:Jared Johnson