no gdm keyboard in HH - cannot login (often)
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| xorg (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Bug Description
I decided to report it as a bug, because this was ok in previous version of HH, but now it's too often... And there were some historical unresolved similar issues in forum, it has some common base I think.
Problem:
PS/2 keyboard works during boot (grub/console/other system), but doesn't work when gdm logon screen appears. I cannot restart gdm - no keyboard. Mouse works (I can tried restart via mouse, but in HH it has different problems sometimes, not a task for this bug). There is only way - reset PC and try again. After several attempts gdm starts with normal successful detection of keyboard and I can login and normal work.
Affected versions (I can write version of kernels, this is what I know from boot.lst, I don't know file versions of keyboard driver etc.):
Mainly 2.6.24-10-x - 2.6.24-11-x (more restarts than keyboard detections)
Sometimes in 2.6.24-7 - 2.6.24-8 (in 2.6.24-8 I think)
Non-affected versions:
From 2.6.20-16 (when I upgraded to developer branch of HH) to 2.6.24-7
During this era HH was fantastic for me. And no keyboard problem...
Did other systems in PC affected?
I have 4 OS here, never saw this in other OS.
Did you see it in previous versions of Ubuntu?
Yes. I saw it sometimes in GG.... I had EE and FF - perfect, without any keyboard problem. But I saw this problem sometimes in GG,
I upgraded early in the beginning of this years to HH, works perfectly, but problems started in 2.6.24-8 again (sometimes) and horror started in 2.6.24-10 - 2.6.24-11 - more restarts than working systems.
Can you describe your hw?
Mainboard: Asus P4P8X
Chipset: Intel i865
CPU: P4 2,8 GHz
keyboard: PS/2 (regardless manufacturer or type, I tested a lot of types, genius, benq etc.)
Did you tried changes in xorg. conf?
Yes, I made some attempts to change pc104-105 or layout. I didn't try different driver.
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "kbd"
Option "CoreKeyboard" //I tried without it
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc104" // I tried different models "pc105" etc.
Option "XkbLayout" "cz" // I tried different layouts
I tried othe settings in gnome control center, without success.
Can you add some log?
Maybe - but I need some help. Send me info want to send. Because system is out of control without keyboard, I have to reset PC and boot from different media - then save log what you want.
Note: System loose keyboard in gdm - during starting X-win... Console, other systems, grub - everywhere system works with keyboard without any problems. It has to be somewhere in gdm - but not in xorg.conf, I reviewed older files. There have to be some changes, because more than 1,5 month I worked in HH without any problem - this started after a lot of updates, something had to be changed.
I am not the only one user of i865 chipset, so this could happen to other people so I want to help to solve it.
Ask me for details, please...
Regards
Slavek Samal
| Stephen (sawjew) wrote | #1 |
| Slavek Samal (samal) wrote Re: [Bug 198934] Re: no gdm keyboard in HH - cannot login (often) | #2 |
| marriouss (marriouss) wrote | #3 |
| marriouss (marriouss) wrote | #4 |
| ycopin (yannick-copin) wrote | #5 |
| ycopin (yannick-copin) wrote | #6 |
| marriouss (marriouss) wrote | #7 |
| Bryce Harrington (bryce) wrote | #8 |
| Changed in xorg: | |
| status: | New → Incomplete |
| Slavek Samal (samal) wrote | #9 |
| Bryce Harrington (bryce) wrote | #10 |
| Changed in xorg: | |
| status: | Incomplete → Fix Released |
| marriouss (marriouss) wrote | #11 |
I have the same issue here. I installed Hardy yesterday and it was working fine but after updates this morning I no longer have a keyboard. I can't give you much informatiion because I can't even log in. It works fine from the recovery console but not when it comes to GDM. I have tried reconfiguring X and tried using an external USB keyboard. I am still dual booting Gutsy which works fine.
LG F1-2A27A laptop, 1.66 GHz core 2 duo, 1.5 GB ram