On Sat, 8 Jan 2011 01:04:30 -0800 patrick keshishian <pkesh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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? Yeah, I rebooted it. > > 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] > -- Joel Rees <joel_r...@sannet.ne.jp>
