In gdm and xdm I can move the mouse around, but when I try to type nothing is happening.
Trying to restart or shutdown via the mouse-driven menu in gdm would not work well, instead of restarting or shutting down gdm would crash , respawn and bring me back to the login screen. After a few successive tries however, it would shutdown. Xdm was not much better, although it didn't appear to crash I was stuck at the login screen, not able to do anything - after Alt+K+PrintScreen xdm of course loaded again so I had to shutdown by pressing the power button.
The only way I could login and run X was to boot with the "single" lilo option, login as root, init to runlevel 3, switch to my user account and issue "startx". The keyboard seems to work fine both before and after starting X in this case. Right now I have removed both gdm and xdm and just run x after logging in at the terminal to save me the trouble of booting in single mode. Below is a snippet from /var/log/xdm.log.
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X.Org X Server 1.7.5
Release Date: 2010-02-16
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: Slackware 13.1 Slackware Linux Project
Current Operating System: Linux darkstar 2.6.33.1 #2 SMP Fri Mar 26 02:09:08 CDT 2010 x86_64
Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=Linux ro root=802 quiet vt.default_utf8=1
Build Date: 23 February 2010 12:09:32PM
Current version of pixman: 0.16.6
Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
to make sure that you have the latest version.
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Mon Apr 5 00:29:58 2010
(==) Using default built-in configuration (30 lines)
(EE) Failed to load module "fbdev" (module does not exist, 0)
The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:
> Error: Can't find file "se_SE" for symbols include
> Exiting
> Abandoning symbols file "default"
Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server
xdm info (pid 6388): Shutting down
xdm error (pid 6388): Display :0 is being disabled
error setting MTRR (base = 0xd0000000, size = 0x0ff00000, type = 1) Inappropriate ioctl for device (25)
xdm info (pid 6388): Exiting
EDIT: I managed to fix the problem with the keyboard and gdm/xdm by creating a symbolic link "se_SE" pointing to "se" in /etc/X11/xkb/symbols. I do however have other errors but obviously non-fatal as gdm works now - see below from /var/log/gdm/:0.log :
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The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:
> Warning: Type "ONE_LEVEL" has 1 levels, but <RALT> has 2 symbols
> Ignoring extra symbols
Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server
The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:
> Warning: Duplicate shape name ""
> Using last definition
> Warning: Duplicate shape name ""
> Using last definition
> Warning: Duplicate shape name ""
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> Warning: Multiple doodads named ""
> Using first definition
> Warning: Multiple doodads named ""
> Using first definition
> Warning: Multiple doodads named ""
> Using first definition
I'll be doing some testing of the live CD for the next few hours, so fixing the install may have to wait. Working stupid hours again, then I have to start house hunting.....