On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 11:48:25AM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Sat, 2006-02-18 at 14:48 +0530, Joshua Pritikin wrote: > > Initially, we thought it was a kernel bug but the keyboard works > > during the system startup. If I type stuff then it appears on > > console interleaved with the boot messages. However, the > > keyboard stops working as soon as X starts, sometimes. Sometimes > > means like 1 in 4 times the keyboard works and 3 in 4 times it > > doesn't work. Any idea how to track this down? > > If you're using a display manager, this is usually due to a race > condition which causes the X server and display manager not to use the > same VT. Display managers usually work around this by passing vtX > explicitly on the X server command line.
I was using kdm 4:3.3.2-1. The problem seems to have disappeared (4 days so far) after switching to gdm 2.8.0.6-2. Shall I file a bug against kdm?
