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

[Christian Schwarz <chris@schwarz-online.com>]

On Fri, 30 Jan 2004, Michel Dänzer wrote:

> 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.

Thank's for the hint!  I added "vt7" to the X call and since then it
worked (about 3 reboots).  I assume, that the problem is fixed now for me,
if not, I'll report this here again.


Thanks,

Chris

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