gdm problem with kernel as of 2005-01-04

[Richard Kuhns]

I just finished a buildworld/buildkernel/mergemaster on my Dell Inspiron 
9300. Upon rebooting, I noticed that gdm seemed to start earlier in the 
boot process than it used to. When the login screen appeared, the mouse 
seemed to work fine, but nothing I typed appeared. Attempting to use 
C-A-F1 to switch to vty0 just beeped. C-A-Del worked to reboot the 
laptop. I booted single user, commented out gdm_enable="YES" in 
/etc/rc.conf, and rebooted -- everything was fine. I put the gdm_enable 
back and ran /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d/gdm.sh start -- gdm started, fully 
functional.

I rebooted again -- gdm ignored the keyboard.

After several reboots, I've found that gdm seems to work fine as long as 
I don't have 'gdm_enable="YES"' in /etc/rc.conf when the machine boots.

I've just finished upgrading gdm (using portmanager); still the same 
problem.

If anyone has suggestions/wants me to try anything, just say so.

Thanks!
	- Rich
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