Bug#266106: kdm: The keyboard problem but not the console number one

[NOLARD Michel <michel.nolard@outmax.org>]

Package: kdm
Version: 4:3.3.1-3
Followup-For: Bug #266106

I have the same problem as reported concerning the keyboard : kdm is launched at startup as usual (as with 3.2) but no keyboard input is possible. Even the NumLock key doesn't work.
It seems though that kdm is aware of the keyboard as any key press implies a longer delay (double I think) of the cursor blink.

The solution I find is simply to use the mouse. It works very well. It's strange, isn't it ?
Thus, I use the mouse and click on "Console login". On console, I login, kill any kdm, sudo kdm and then I can use the keyboard again.

I understand absolutely nothing to this problem : I have the same stupid keyboard as before, and I never change its configuration.

You found nothing in log messages although I found in /var/log/kdm.log something which seems interesting but I can decrypt it :
"The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:
> Warning:          Type "ONE_LEVEL" has 1 levels, but <RALT> has 2 symbols
>                   Ignoring extra symbols
Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server"

This message was not part of my kdm logs before the update.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.7-meg-0.6
Locale: LANG=fr_BE@euro, LC_CTYPE=fr_BE@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)

Versions of packages kdm depends on:
ii  debconf                  1.4.30.11       Debian configuration management sy
ii  kdebase-bin              4:3.3.1-3       KDE Base (binaries)
ii  kdelibs4                 4:3.3.1-4       KDE core libraries
ii  libart-2.0-2             2.3.16-6        Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libc6                    2.3.2.ds1-20    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libfam0c102              2.7.0-6         client library to control the FAM 
ii  libgcc1                  1:3.4.3-6       GCC support library
ii  libice6                  4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libidn11                 0.5.2-3         GNU libidn library, implementation
ii  libpam-runtime           0.76-22         Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii  libpam0g                 0.76-22         Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpng12-0               1.2.8rel-1      PNG library - runtime
ii  libqt3c102-mt            3:3.3.3-7       Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v
ii  libsm6                   4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System Session Management
ii  libstdc++5               1:3.3.5-5       The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libx11-6                 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxext6                 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii  libxrender1              0.8.3-7         X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  libxtst6                 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System event recording an
ii  xbase-clients            4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 miscellaneous X clients
ii  xlibs                    4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu
ii  zlib1g                   1:1.2.2-3       compression library - runtime

-- debconf information:
  kdm/stop_running_server_with_children: false
* kdm/default_servers_nolisten_tcp:
* kdm/default_servers_100dpi:
* shared/default-x-display-manager: kdm
* kdm/default_nolisten_udp:
  kdm/daemon_name: /usr/bin/kdm