Bug#222831: same problem here: dead keyboard under X

[Michel Dänzer <daenzer@debian.org>]

On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 14:34, Christian Schwarz wrote:
> I just wanted to report that I'm experiencing the same problem here: when
> I start X via gdm, sometimes the keyboard is completely dead, sometimes it
> just works perfectly.  Note that this happens only at startup--I don't
> have "lock up" problems within a X session.

I'm not sure it's the same problem; does it also happen with startx for
you?

If not, your problem could be a known race condition where the X server
doesn't attach to the same VT it displays on; restarting the display
manager fixes it. Make sure that gdm passes something like vt7 to the X
server.


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