Re: No keyboard in gdm-greeter on reboot

[Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>]

John Stoffel wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've been running into a strange issue with gdm on bootup.  The mouse
> works, but the keyboard doesn't.  This has been opened as bug #406457
> (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=406457), but I
> haven't heard anything back from the maintainer.
>
> I can work around the issue by going to the XDMCP chooser, then coming
> back to the gdm login greeter, so it looks like it's a problem with
> either my Xconfig, or my kernel.  I'm running 2.6.19-rc7 right now,
> but I've been beeing seeing this with 2.6.18 and up.  I suspect it's
> an issue with udev, not creating the keyboard input device entry
> quickly enough for gdm to find it on startup.  
>
> My debian system is an 'unstable' setup by default, and I update quite
> frequently to get the latest packages.  I currently have:
>
>    gdm/unstable uptodate 2.16.4-1
>
> installed.  
>
> Anyone have any clues?  

For what it's worth:

ii  gdm                    2.16.4-1               GNOME Display Manager

uname -a:

Linux debian 2.6.19.2-ck2 #1 PREEMPT Fri Feb 2 11:32:24 CST 2007 i686 
GNU/Linux

and Sid, but I don't have that problem.

Hugo