On 20 May, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > [ cross-posting is not welcomed, btw ]
sorry, i'll keep that in mind next time. fairly new to mailing lists, i'm afraid =) > On Thu, May 20, 1999 at 04:05:23AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> 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. > > gdm is fighting with getty over the keyboard. I'd guess there's a file > called /etc/X11/gdm/Xservers. You'll need to modify the entry for the local > server and add "vt7" to it, like this: > > :0 local /usr/bin/X11/X vt7 > thanks for the tip! i'll be sure to do this if i ever get up the nerve to try gdm again. i don't get all the hoopla over gnome, anyway...just a bunch of programs that look alittle like windows apps, seems to me. > (of course, replace vt7 with whatever it's ok for your system) > i will need to know what this vt7 thing means before i can know what's okay for my system... >> Is it simply a bug in GDM? I suppose i'll see... > > it's a bug in ... in ... no, wait, it's not really a bug. It's a deficency > in the start up process. Basically, *dm should be run after everything > else, namely, after the getty's are spawned. This is not the case. *dm is > launched _almost_ after everything. But as you and several other people > have found out, "almost" doesn't do it. > > -- -Jared Johnson
