Martin,

I set gdm to display on vt5 as you suggested and it worked! Now I can run sshd and gdm. 

So the solution is to specify gdm to run on a tty which is not managed by getty (I am just paraphrasing).

Many thanks,

Taro

-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 09:27:53 +0100
To: Taro Fukunaga <tarozax404@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: can' type anything in gdm with sshd running


> > After I set up sshd, I can't type anyting in gdm's greeter. My touchpad 
> > mouse works howerver. Here are my settings:
> 
> This sounds like gdm started up before getty, and picked a vt device that
> later getty want's to handle.
> 
> Please make sure you have the vt specified in /usr/X11R6/etc/gdm/gdm.conf:
> 
> 0=/usr/X11R6/bin/X vt5
> 
> and you don't run getty on /dev/tty/E4 (see /etc/ttys). Note that X starts
> numbering vts at 1, while /dev/ttyE* starts at 0.
> 
> Martin
> 

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