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

[Tim Day <timday@bottlenose.demon.co.uk>]

On Sat, 2007-09-22 at 01:10 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> However, re the serial console, you can have more than one console
> set.
> See the remote-serial-console-HOWTO.  I would suggest that your serial
> console be in addition to the standard tty.  The order matters but I
> forget it; see the HOWTO.  Perhaps with two set, things will work
> right.

Thanks, just tried
  console=tty0 console=ttyS0,9600n8
(before I only has the ttyS0 entry) but it makes no difference to gdm's
initial unresponsive to keyboard input (I do now get both local and
remote console messages though, which is nice).

I did find an easier way of kicking it back into awareness though:
select the XDMCP chooser with the mouse, then cancel back to the login
prompt (the XDMCP dialog also accepts keyboard input).

Turns out there's already a bugreport for this: #406457

Tim