Hi! I ran into this while setting up a friends machine. Unfortunately there is no internet there, so I couldn't look into the BTS there and now I don't have the PC available. Sorry for the incomplete information!
Ad Braden: Can you confirm, whether the same problem shows up when starting X with startx? I believe that this bug is an instance of the problems described in #169427, but here are the details: I set up the machine with sarge-installer RC2, Kernel 2.4 The keyboard is ordinary pc105 on a PS2-Port. The mouse is on USB. After a few tries we got gpm running. (Sorry don't remember the details, didn't expect any real trouble then.) Issuing xstart as an ordinary user brougth up X without trouble. I don't know, whether the keyboard worked at that time. My friend pressed some key-combinations he doesn't remember. (They had some effect at least.) At some point the keyboard went away. Neither of Ctrl-Alt-Fn nor anything else showed any effect. After terminating the running Gnome-Session using the mouse, we got the ttys back, but the keyboard was in trouble there too: To me it seems like the Ctrl-key was pressed the whole time (d leading to eof (logout), s leading to Scroll_Lock - I don't know a possibility to recover from that, ans Scroll_Lock itself leading to "Show_State") As we believed the keyboard configuration to be wrong, we tried a lot of different things. But all in subsequent tries the keyboard was broken under X from the very beginning (even after cold booting). In some cases ttys worked well after the x server had terminated and sometimes the above Ctrl-key problem showed up again. We can't reproduce this reliably yet. After reading #169427 I believe that the mouse setting is causing that and IIRC we had the very same setting of "Configured Mouse" and "Generic Mouse" as Braden has. I don't have access to the PC ATM, so I can't investigate this further. Hopefully this is helpful to somebody. I'll send a follow up as soon as I have access to the affected computer again. Harald -- DSL Komplett von GMX +++ Supergünstig und stressfrei einsteigen! AKTION "Kein Einrichtungspreis" nutzen: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/dsl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
