I believe you need to add [servers] 0=inactive to the appropriate gdm configuration file (usually custom.conf) to disable the local X server.
William Yang On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:46:26 +0100, Guido Schwarzer <[email protected]> wrote: > On 01/21/2010 03:21 PM, Meik Hellmund wrote: >> On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:36:03 +0100 >> Guido Schwarzer <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On 01/18/2010 10:24 AM, Guido Schwarzer wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> after installing SRSS 4.2 on Debian Lenny we have the problem that the >>>> keyboard at the local (graphical) console gets lost after a couple of >>>> seconds. Accordingly, access to the server is only available via >>>> network >>>> which in the case of network problems would be kind of a glitch. >>>> [...] >> I have never seen this, so I can only contribute a couple of questions: >> >> it happens after a couple of seconds... after what? midnight? > > After each reboot, the keyboard gets lost a couple of seconds after the > gdm login window appears. > > >> Can you still switch to a non-graphical console (Ctrl-Alt-F1...F6)? >> What happens if you switch to a non-graphical console before it happens? > > Yes, switching to the non-graphical console via Ctrl-Alt-F1... is > possible. After switching to a non-graphical console the keyboard does > work properly. However, one has to change to tty1-6 in a small time window. > > >> Is there still an X server running and serving display :0? > > Yes, the X-Server is running on :0 and serving the gdm login window. So, > disabling the X server on :0 is probably the way to fix our problem with > the lost keyboard. However, I do not know how to disable X on :0 on a > Debian server. Any hint on this would be great. > > >> Anything in the log file of this X server? >> Anything in the kernel log? > > Nothing particular. > > >> Is the mouse still working? > > Yes, the mouse is working on the locale graphical console. > > >> USB or PS/2 keyboard/mouse? > > Only USB > > >> Are the Sunrays working? > > Yes, the Sun Rays are working like a charm. No keyboard problems on this > side. > > > As we noticed this afternoon, the keyboard on the local graphical > console works immediately if we manually restart gdm (after login via > ssh). However, disabling the X server on :0 is probably the way to go. > > Yours, > Guido > _______________________________________________ > SunRay-Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users _______________________________________________ SunRay-Users mailing list [email protected] http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
