[ale] strange keyboard problem

[James Sumners]

Ugh, testing. That translates to "constantly broken" in my mind.

You might try `dpkg-reconfigure gdm`. It's possible that would fix the
problem. If not, try `dpkg --purge --force-all gdm && apt-get update
&& apt-get install gdm` to purge the gdm configuration and reinstall
it. Also, try moving "~/.gnome2" to "~/.gnome2.old". That should wipe
her Gnome configuration, which could be causing the problems with
Gnome.

On Jan 11, 2008 9:58 AM, Preston Boyington <preston.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> a friend of mine has upgraded her laptop and now she has an odd problem.
>   when gdm automatically logs her into her desktop she has no keyboard
> functions.  if she logs out then her keyboard starts working and life is
> good again.
>
> have also tried without the automatic login and get nothing.
>
> anyone heard of this before?  she was running elive and now has
> basically moved into debian "testing" by doing a dist-upgrade and
> commenting out the elive and backports repositories.
>
> i don't know what kind of session or theme manager Enlightenment 17
> uses, but when i tried to change fonts in Gnome it griped about
> something not letting the gnome-session-manager start.  so now she has
> Gnome with the same (or similar) style as her elive desktop.  i wonder
> if this also is part of the problem.  (She has switched to FVWM-Crystal
> currently and doesn't have any issues with legibility.)
>
> as usual, any ideas will be appreciated.  lol, by the way, this is her
> "learning box" so she is excited that she finally has a problem to solve. :D
>
>
> thanks,
> Preston



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