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tasos

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[solved] cannot login to gnome 2.28 gdm does not recognise keyboard

hello, i upgraded today to gnome 2.28 and it seems that gdm doesn't recognise my laptop's keyboard (or any other usb keyboard I plug in) so i can't login any ideas?

Last edited by tasos (2009-10-13 18:12:06)

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Kilz

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Re: [solved] cannot login to gnome 2.28 gdm does not recognise keyboard

I am having a similar problem. Through trial and error I found a way to make my Acer laptop sometimes let me login. During boot up I hit the scroll lock to stop the boot sequence. If I do it 5 or 6 times, it sometimes makes the keyboard work in the gdm.
Sadly I need this laptop for a huge test tomorrow. I should never have done the upgrade!

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tasos

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Re: [solved] cannot login to gnome 2.28 gdm does not recognise keyboard

solved! i had configured my keyboard in xorg.conf
I commented out the option: "AutoAddDevices" "false" in xorg
and created a hal .fdi file for the keyboard like this:

cp /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/10-keymap.fdi /etc/hal/fdi/policy/
and edit 10-keymap.fdi accordingly

more info here: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xor … figuration

hope this helps
by the way is this a bug? shouldn't both configurations (hotplugging and old school xorg) work?

Last edited by tasos (2009-10-13 18:13:15)

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Kilz

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Re: [solved] cannot login to gnome 2.28 gdm does not recognise keyboard

Thank you so very very much! :):) That fix worked for me.
I will not be updating again until after my Dogmatics test. I foolishly did not follow my sop and wait at least 2 weeks after a major version update to a major part of the os.

Yes it is a bug. Both ways should work. But this seems to be a laptop bug, so it may not have come up. Do you have a Acer laptop?

Last edited by Kilz (2009-10-13 20:42:30)

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tasos

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From: Alpha Centauri

Registered: 2009-02-08

Posts: 25

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Re: [solved] cannot login to gnome 2.28 gdm does not recognise keyboard

Yes it is a bug. Both ways should work. But this seems to be a laptop bug, so it may not have come up. Do you have a Acer laptop?

I will file a bug report tomorrow, no my laptop is compaq
I'm glad it worked for you

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