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Re: Xorg keyboard broke on todays upgrade



On Sun, 03 Jun 2007 16:51:34 -0700
ss11223 <ss11223@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Jun 3, 5:40 pm, ss11223 <ss11...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have a machine running "testing" on which I did an 'apt-get dist-
> > upgrade' today. Now my
> > keyboard won't work under xorg (the mouse works fine, and the
> > keyboard works  on the
> > non-x screens).

[...]

> Some more experimentation shows that it is only Gnome that is broken
> this way, and then only
> when started from gdm. (When I do a startx from root the keyboard
> stays working)

When you start GNOME using startx, you are doing so in a login shell.
That is not the case with GDM. So I suspect that something in your
shell environment is making the difference.

-- 

Liam



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