51761 – xfree (gdm, start) require restarting to acquire keyboard input

Bug 51761 - xfree (gdm, start) require restarting to acquire keyboard input

Summary: xfree (gdm, start) require restarting to acquire keyboard input

Status:	RESOLVED NEEDINFO

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	x86 Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo X packagers

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Reported:	2004-05-22 14:13 UTC by Barry Grussling
Modified:	2005-01-03 12:22 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description Barry Grussling 2004-05-22 14:13:37 UTC

I have a system running baselayout-1.8.12 and when I start /etc/init.d/numlock 
on boot it makes X11 not accept keyboard input until X11 is stopped and restarted.

Removing numlock from the boot process (rc-update del numlock) fixed it so that
gdm, startx, and x11 in general would take input from keyboard on first start.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.  rc-update add numlock boot; rc-update add xdm boot
2.  Restart computer

Actual Results:  
Couldn't type anything that would show up in the login prompt

Expected Results:  
It should have printed the characters I was hitting on my keyboard.

Portage 2.0.50-r6 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.6.6)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.6 i686 Pentium II (Deschutes)
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.10
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.58-r1
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O3 -mcpu=i686 -funroll-loops -pipe"
CHOST="i486-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref
/usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/
/usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O3 -mcpu=i686 -funroll-loops -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://crash.wwh ftp://ftp.wwc.edu/pub/mirrors/ftp.gentoo.org"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://crash.wwh/gentoo-portage"
USE="X aalib alsa apache2 apm arts avi berkdb crypt cups dvd encode esd
foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 imlib java jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad
mikmod mmx motif mozilla mpeg mysql ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib
perl png python qt quicktime readline sdl slang spell ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex
truetype x86 xinerama xml2 xmms xv zlib"

Comment 1 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-01-03 12:22:38 UTC

Please reopen and change the summary if this is still a problem with >=xorg-x11-6.8.0.