On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 10:26:00AM -0500, 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 had a similar problem a while back[1]. It turned out that gdm was
trying to run on the same VC as a text console, and the text console
was grabbing all of the keystrokes. I ended up changing the line that
said "0=Standard" to "0=Standard vt7" in the "[servers]" section of
gdm.conf. Mind you, this was a long time ago, but it's worth looking
into.
dt
[1] http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.laptop/msg/c92a24076c69749f