Re: Problems with Kbrd

[George <jirka 5z com>]

On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 10:41:49AM +0000, Jim George wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> 	I'm sorry if this is a simple question that I should be looking in the 
> archives for but I'm at work and can't spare much time.
> 
> 	I have just installed Ximian Gnome 1.4 on a SuSE 7.1 system and am having 
> problems logging in.
> 
> 	I would like to be able to use GDM and select either KDE or GNOME as my 
> sessions.  Unfortunately the keyboard becomes inoperative after several 
> seconds and I can therefore not login.
> 
> 	I am able to use the mouse still, so can reboot.  Then I have to very 
> quickly switch to a non-graphical screen (ALT-F1) as soon as X starts.
> 
> 	I have seen errors relating to the language but am not sure what is going 
> wrong.
> 
> 	Can someone please tell me how I configure GDM on SuSE 7.1 (especially with 
> relation to the language and keyboard layout, which should be en_UK or en_US 
> I hope)?

I've seena similar report on the bugtracker.  I'm not sure exactly what is
happening.  For one I would suggest trying the standard gdm rpm rather then
Ximian ones.  Second, the person in the previous bugreport said that he has
had more luck when starting gdm from a root login, rather then from init.

Overall this seems more like an X problem.

Do other login managers (kdm, xdm) work fine, that is, is this just gdm?

George

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