On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 01:35:49PM +1100, Angus Beath wrote: > Hi Guys, > > Wondering if anyone can help me? I have a Sun Blade 1500 running OpenBSD > 5.0/Sparc64 and with a PCI PGX video card instead of the XVR-600 junk it > shipped with. Once I did this swap it actually became usable as a desktop. > > I've installed the Gnome desktop with GDM etc using a very useful guide > from the net. Everything works except the keyboard does random strange > things. It will, for example, keep a CTRL-D in it's buffer after I've > exited a terminal session and I then can't open another terminal without it > instantly closing. > > If I've hit enter to execute a command it will not only execute the command > but continue behaving as if I've hit enter 50 times. > > Does anyone perhaps have a tip about how I might deal with this? I'm only a > beginner with OpenBSD so it's highly likely I'm missing something obvious > and my Google-fu is letting me down. >
Did you disable the console getty after enabling gdm ? If not X and getty are fighting for keyboard input and this produces the kind of behaviours you describe. Esit /etc/ttys and set the console getty process to "off", then reboot or pkill -1 init. -- Matthieu Herrb
