Description of problem: When the GDM login screen appears, it comes up normally, however it doesn't accept keyboard input. Instead you get beeps when you hit keys (including modifier keys). You cannot even do a ctrl-alt-backspace or ctrl-alt-Fn to switch consoles. Interestingly though, if you hit shift 5 times the sticky keys dialog comes up. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Difficult to say. It happens on my computer, not on my wife's, which is also an Intel F15 x86_64 system. It was also reported in a completely different distro here: http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=55&t=93286&p=543409 Steps to Reproduce: 1. Get to login screen 2. Try to type your password 3. Fail Actual results: Beeps when you hit keys. Expected results: Keystrokes work. Additional info: Can be worked around by enabling automatic login in GDM. Not very wise for security reasons, but it might give a hint as to what's going on. Switching to XDM or similar also works, though if you choose XDM then NetworkManager may not work (and presumably other things as well) if you don't use Gnome due to Gnome security stuff not being started.
Forgot to give my GDM info: Name : gdm Arch : x86_64 Epoch : 1 Version : 3.0.4 Release : 1.fc15 Size : 5.8 M Repo : installed From repo : updates Summary : The GNOME Display Manager URL : http://download.gnome.org/sources/gdm License : GPLv2+ Description : GDM provides the graphical login screen, shown shortly after boot up, : log out, and when user-switching.
Possible related incidents in other distros: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=132955 - similar symptoms but hard to say if it's the same problem http://forum.elivecd.org/read.php?12,2144,2144 - might be a clue? http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/install-boot-login/458885-gdm-w-o-keyboard.html
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