Anyone who boots directly to X'doze without first going through a safe console login is a raging mad lunatic who needs his head examined. This is linux we are talking about. It's crap. It always has been crap, and it always will be crap. Never ever ever trust it. I leave my computer on continuously because booting it is such a risk. Every single time I load X'doze and find that my keyboard and mouse are working I ghasp with surprise. The linux developers, or the penguins as I like to call them are so smug on the sublime superiority of the open source approach that they never bother to design essential things such as fail-safe design, fallback drivers, stable apis so that it doesn't just die if it's not compiled against this specific point release. ... You know, the kind of things that any competent programmer would think about. =|
Bertram Scharpf wrote: > Hi, > > since an emerge-update-world on my notebook the keyboard > does no longer respond in X. This is extremely annoying > because when I have xdm in rc-update, X is started right at > boot. I have no chance to get back to the console using > Ctrl-Alt-F1, and the device in unusable. > > Yet, this is only a problem of the boot process. At home, > when I ssh into the system, I can do an > > # /etc/init.d/xdm restart > > and from that point on the keyboard works. It is even > possible to disable xdm in rc-update and start it after the > boot process has completed. I solved the problem temporarily > this way, but the problem probably is a bug and should be > reported. > > So I have a closer look. When I diff "Xorg.0.log" and > "Xorg.0.log.old" (after removing the time stamps) I find one > line that doesn't appear in the log of the working X. > > (EE) kbd: Keyboard0: failed to set us as foreground pgrp (Inappropriate > ioctl for device) > > What does this mean? I estimate that "us" is the personal > pronoun and not a keyboard layout, and that the server tries > to do some chgrp on some /dev/*. I have no clue what to try > next. > > Thanks in advance. > -- IQ is a measure of how stupid you feel. Powers are not rights.
