> I had this same problem when I tried upgrading to Ximian Gnome beta 1 - > having gdm start up on booting resulted in not being able to type anything > in, but booting into a plain console, going root, and then running gdm > resulted in it working fine. I'm afraid I couldn't figure out how > to fix it, > so I just downgraded to the last stable release and haven't had > any trouble > since :).
That solved it. Thanks. Hopefully it will teach me a lesson of not running unneeded betas. :) Thanks.