Hugo> John Stoffel wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I've been running into a strange issue with gdm on bootup.  The mouse
>> works, but the keyboard doesn't.  This has been opened as bug #406457
>> (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=406457), but I
>> haven't heard anything back from the maintainer.
>> 
>> I can work around the issue by going to the XDMCP chooser, then coming
>> back to the gdm login greeter, so it looks like it's a problem with
>> either my Xconfig, or my kernel.  I'm running 2.6.19-rc7 right now,
>> but I've been beeing seeing this with 2.6.18 and up.  I suspect it's
>> an issue with udev, not creating the keyboard input device entry
>> quickly enough for gdm to find it on startup.  
>> 
>> My debian system is an 'unstable' setup by default, and I update quite
>> frequently to get the latest packages.  I currently have:
>> 
>> gdm/unstable uptodate 2.16.4-1

Hugo> ii  gdm                    2.16.4-1               GNOME Display Manager

Hugo> uname -a:

Hugo> Linux debian 2.6.19.2-ck2 #1 PREEMPT Fri Feb 2 11:32:24 CST 2007 i686 
Hugo> GNU/Linux

Hugo> and Sid, but I don't have that problem.

Hmmm... care you send your list of installed packages (directly to me
if you like) so I can compare it with my list?  Again, I suspect it's
either a kernel input issue, or a udev issue, but it's not clear.

Maybe I need to purge and re-install all of my system.  

John


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