Re: keyboard not working under X

[Michel Dänzer <michdaen@iiic.ethz.ch>]

Stephen Judd wrote:

> Now it boots, gets as far as the Ximian login dialogue, and then the
> keyboard stops working. I can't log in, and because the keyboard is not
> working, I can't kill the X server or move to the console.

I used to have the same problem. Looking at the server log I found out that it
attached to VT2 while the output was on VT7. Explicitly specifying vt7 as a
server arg solved it for me, here's the gdm.conf line I have now:

0=/usr/bin/X11/X vt7 -nolisten tcp


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