Oh, the humanity!

[Duston, Hal]

Randy,

Randy Rathbun [randy at randyrathbun.org] wrote:
> 
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> This morning I restart my main machine. As I said - it has 
> not been powered off in 87 days. The machine comes up, I get 
> the Helix Code gdm, I try to log on - nothing. It won't read 
> my keyboard! I try switching over to the other terminals - 
> nothing! The screen flickers and takes me right back to the 
> X login. 
>
So the screen flickers?  This in reaction to your trying to 
Alt-F1?  I assume then that you can toggle the num-lock key?
> 
> Well, I have no idea what to do now. Suggestions on what I 
> should look at? Oh - and I can log in over the network, so 
> at least I am not totally locked out of the thing. Just 
> makes it really hard to play Civ:CTP and Railroad Tychoon.
>
For starters you might try changing it boot up without using 
gdm.  Change inittab to use 3 instead of 4 and reboot.  That 
will tell if it is an X problem, or something lower level 
than that.
> 
> -- 
> 
> Randy Rathbun                            randy at randyrathbun.org
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Hal Duston
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