On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 02:51:33PM -0700, Greywolf wrote:
> Greetings, all!
> 
> When I have xdm start automagically from /etc/rc, the keyboard refuses
> to respond; when I start it manually (via login as xdm), it behaves
> fine.
> 
> Anyone else have this problem?
> 
> [this is 1.5.1 as released, XFree86-4.1.0 built from scratch]

I've had what sounds like a very similar problem with 1.5.1_BETA and
GDM and XFree-4.0.3;  I haven't spent the time to do any debugging. 
Everything's cool when I start gdm from the commandline, but if I put
it in rc.local, no keyboard.  If it matters, I've got a USB keyboard.

+j