Hi, since an emerge-update-world on my notebook the keyboard does no longer respond in X. This is extremely annoying because when I have xdm in rc-update, X is started right at boot. I have no chance to get back to the console using Ctrl-Alt-F1, and the device in unusable.
Yet, this is only a problem of the boot process. At home, when I ssh into the system, I can do an # /etc/init.d/xdm restart and from that point on the keyboard works. It is even possible to disable xdm in rc-update and start it after the boot process has completed. I solved the problem temporarily this way, but the problem probably is a bug and should be reported. So I have a closer look. When I diff "Xorg.0.log" and "Xorg.0.log.old" (after removing the time stamps) I find one line that doesn't appear in the log of the working X. (EE) kbd: Keyboard0: failed to set us as foreground pgrp (Inappropriate ioctl for device) What does this mean? I estimate that "us" is the personal pronoun and not a keyboard layout, and that the server tries to do some chgrp on some /dev/*. I have no clue what to try next. Thanks in advance. Bertram -- Bertram Scharpf Stuttgart, Deutschland/Germany http://www.bertram-scharpf.de
