On Wednesday 25 July 2001 23:51 you've 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]

Yes, with two, one and some day old -current and XF86 4.1 built from scratch.
Either the keyboard does not react immediately, or it gets fucked after some 
time. Happens to the mouse, too. But not to both at the same time. I see (via 
xosview) the interrupts still being shot, but well, nothing happens. 

Sometimes even only some special keys (w, e, and 2 here) start to behave 
strangely (i.e. do not react on keyPRESS but on keyRELEASE)) My solution was 
(as I found out XF 4 supports my card MUCHOS better (18somewhat x 14somewhat 
instead of 1280x1024 running nicely) my solution to this was to junk XDM ;) 
Life can be so easy ;p of course this might not be an option for everybody.)

I hope this is fixed soon, hard to debug it though when you only have one 
machine with a keyboard running (still waiting for that other one to arrive) 
and the only other machine you have running at all is a screenless, mouseless 
and keyboard less router - not an option for me to carry my 19" screen 
through my flat and add a keyboard on the router just to do network debugging 
on my "main" machine ;>

Martin Weber