Stephen Judd wrote: > Now it boots, gets as far as the Ximian login dialogue, and then the > keyboard stops working. I can't log in, and because the keyboard is not > working, I can't kill the X server or move to the console.
I used to have the same problem. Looking at the server log I found out that it attached to VT2 while the output was on VT7. Explicitly specifying vt7 as a server arg solved it for me, here's the gdm.conf line I have now: 0=/usr/bin/X11/X vt7 -nolisten tcp -- Earthling Michel D�nzer (MrCooper) \ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer CS student, Free Software enthusiast \ XFree86 and DRI project member
