On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 6:26 PM, Joel Rees <joel_r...@sannet.ne.jp> wrote: > After I finished the basic install, I started X11 with xdm from the keyboard, logged in as root at one point, logged in as the admin user at another, maybe even from a non-admin user account. No apparent problems at first. > > Then I copied the xdm_flags="" line from rc.conf to rc.conf.local and uncommented it and tried booting. X11 came up, but I could not enter passwords. Trackpad did, however, move the insertion point pointer. Had to shell in from another box to undo xdm. > > Tried startx about this point, and it ignores keyboard input but registers the mouse. I can click for a menu, select "Exit", and get back to the text terminal. > > Sometime later, I noticed I had forgotten about /dev/ttyC0, so I tried again, with /dev/ttyC0 off in /etc/ttys. Still no keyboard.
Maybe you imply this, but to make certain: did you restart the computer after editing /etc/ttys? --patrick > > Read further and found the information on X -configure, and tried running it, but it locks up with no messages to the screen after leaving a configuration file. I can shell in and kill the processes and usually get the system back. Using the configuration file doesn't help. > > I was able to get some variation to give me keyboard input with startx, but only once, can't reproduce it now. > > Reading the logs, I'm not able to figure out much. I notice a kbd module seems to get unloaded, but so does a mouse module, so I'm not sure that's relevant. [dd]
