On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 11:26:26AM +0900, Joel Rees 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. > > 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. >
What happens if you run without an xorg.conf at all ? If you have and /etc/kbdtype containing 'jp' it should work with the jp layout, otherwise it will default to us layout. -- Matthieu Herrb
