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Debian3.0r4, Keyboard stops working when starting GDM!

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Debian3.0r4, Keyboard stops working when starting GDM!

#1 Post by Guest »

I´m a newbie at Debian.

When my computer boots the keyboard works perfectly, but when it starts gdm it stop working!

I have configured the keyboard correctly in XFree86-Config-4 is think.

What can be wrong? My keyboard is PS/2

supergringo
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#2 Post by supergringo »

Try this...not too sure what it does, but it worked for me. I found it in some forum, can't remember where...

cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/rules
ln -sf xorg-it.lst xfree86-it.lst
ln -sf xorg.lst xfree86.lst
ln -sf xorg.xml xfree86.xml
ln -sf xorg xfree86
There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. Some kind of high powered mutant never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.
--HST

lacek
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#3 Post by lacek »

What kind of mouse do you have?
This kind of error often caused by a PS2 keyboard+USB mouse pair, where the X server is configured to use PS2 mouse. Since X configured to use 2 PS2 devices, but only one is present, the keyboard gets frozen. I'm not sure why it is, but I had some trouble with this before...

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