On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 22:34, Kent West wrote: > J Fields wrote: > > >Keyboard and mouse don't work at all in login window after install. > > > >I just now finished installing. > > > >It says this after reboot: > >"Gnome Desktop Manger" > >... > >"Username" > >but my keyboard won't type anything > >and I can't use alt-F2 to go to another > >shell to kill X-windows. > > > >Only thing I can to is turn the power off to reboot. > >I can't even rlogin from another machine since > >I configured this new system as a DHCP boot for internet surfing > >(my present in house network is 10.x.x.x based and this was > >the first machine in my plan to migrate to DHCP). > > > >I guess it is a problem that I did not know > >which serial port the mouse is on... maybe? > >How can I find that out? > >Maybe the knoppix cd will help in this regards? > > > > > > > > > > Assuming you're using LILO, at the LILO prompt, type something like > linux single > to boot into single-user mode. If the keyboard works, disable gdm[1] and > then reboot normally. Now you can troubleshoot the problem. > > 1. Several ways to do this; probably easiest for this purpose is to add > the line > exit 0 > as the first executable line of "/etc/init.d/gdm". > > > Kent I had that problem for an extended time a while back, until I stumbled on something I'd tweaked in the /etc/gdm/gdm.conf file - I'd switched on XDMCP, but left -nolisten tcp on the actual X command, meaning (if I understand things *now*) that it was waiting for even some echo while not receiving it. The result was no response on the displays I had configured. -- Mark L. Kahnt, FLMI/M, ALHC, HIA, AIAA, ACS, MHP ML Kahnt New Markets Consulting Tel: (613) 531-8684 / (613) 539-0935 Email: kahnt@hosehead.dyndns.org
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