Bug#266106: possible solution (was Re: Keyboard not working in KDM sometimes)

[Adeodato Simó <asp16@alu.ua.es>]

* Scott Thompson (on debian-kde) [Mon, 23 Aug 2004 18:05:38 -0500]:
>  I'm getting an odd problem since upgrading to KDE 3.3 from 
> unstable.  When KDM comes up, my mouse always works.  I can 
> select a user name, click on the session types button, etc.  
> However, sometimes my keyboard doesn't work. 

  hi, this is reported as #266106. I've been unable to reproduce this on
  my system, so I'd be very grateful if everybody experiencing the
  problem would test the following approach and gave some feedback.
  thanks in advance.

    - first, check that the problem dissappears if you do the following
      change in /etc/kde3/kdm/Xservers (and then restart kdm):

        -:0 local@tty1 /usr/X11R6/bin/X -nolisten tcp
        +:0 local@tty1 /usr/X11R6/bin/X -nolisten tcp vt7

      that is, add the string 'vt7' to the :0 line in that file. that
      should *really* fix the bug. if for anybody does not solve it,
      PLEASE report.

    - then, plese revert back the change (i.e., leave the original
      Xservers) and add the following line ==> in the [General] section <==
      of /etc/kde3/kdm/kdmrc (and then restart kdm):

        ServerVTs=-7

      I am not 100% if this will solve the problem for everybody, so I'm
      specially looking forward hearing feedback wrt. this second point.
      once you've tried, you may use the solution you prefer (or the one
      that works for you, should one fail for some reason).

  thanks for your patience,

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