On Monday, 21. Mar 2016, 12:52:47 +0100, Bertram Scharpf wrote: > since an emerge-update-world on my notebook the keyboard > does no longer respond in X. This is extremely annoying > because when I have xdm in rc-update, X is started right at > boot. I have no chance to get back to the console using > Ctrl-Alt-F1, and the device in unusable. > > Yet, this is only a problem of the boot process. At home, > when I ssh into the system, I can do an > > # /etc/init.d/xdm restart > > and from that point on the keyboard works. It is even > possible to disable xdm in rc-update and start it after the > boot process has completed.
In the meantime I found another solution. /etc/init.d/xdm did not actually start Xdm, but Kdm. In Kdm I could switch to the console by clicking a menu item with the mouse. Yet, I found the most satisfying solution when I ran into an emerge-dependency-resolution hell with KDE. I completely deinstalled KDE, and since I use SLiM I had not one crash any more. Bertram -- Bertram Scharpf Stuttgart, Deutschland/Germany http://www.bertram-scharpf.de
