Re: Booting with console=ttyS0 and gdm/xorg strangeness

[Steve Kemp <steve@steve.org.uk>]

On Fri Sep 21, 2007 at 22:55:39 +0100, Tim Day wrote:

> However, when gdm comes up following the boot, I now can't type
> anything, not even ctrl-alt-Fn to another virtual console.  (Mouse is
> fine though).  But if I ssh in from another machine and restart gdm,
> once it's comes up again it responds to the keyboard just fine and I can
> proceed to a usable xsession as normal (and ctrl-alt-Fn to other
> terminals).

  Slightly related - when I setup my system to have GDM run Xvnc upon
 a different screen the same symptoms were present:  No keyboard
 access of any kind unless I connected remotely and ran 'gdm restart'.

  I never did track it down ..

Steve
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