> > However, if I put 'xdm=yes' in /etc/rc.conf, I cannot login using the
> > chooser, change to a text console or do anything involving keyboard
> > input. X, the chooser, and xconsole start fine and the mouse pointer
> > works, but the keyboard does not accept any input and in fact I cannot
> > even do things like turn the caps lock on/off.

> I see similar problems on DragonFlyBSD using pkgsrc xorg.

I had this same problem. I think it is caused because xdm is starting up 
on wrong console. (And device was owned by wrong user I saw.) To fix the 
problem under Linux using pkgsrc Xorg's xdm, my xdm/Xservers configuration 
has:
                                              
:0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X vt7 -dpi 100 -nolisten tcp

 Jeremy C. Reed

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