I don't know if this is related or not, but
I installed FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE + GNOME + gdm
the other day, and since the system had a
keyboard with Windoze keys I selected "pc104"
keyboard instead of "pc101".

Anyway, things were pretty horked up.  In the
gdm login window, I could only type a few
characters before it locked up.  After rebooting,
I set the DISPLAY environment variable, ran "X &",
from a virtual terminal, switched back to the
virtual terminal that I started "X" from,
ran "xterm &", switched back to the virtual
terminal that the X server was running on,
brought the xterm client in focus, and tried
typing.  It locked up again in this VERY simple
X state (One X server, one X client, zero
window management), so methinks this JLF security
feature lies within the code of the pc104 driver.

I vi'd the X server config file, changed to good
ol' pc101, and I typed happily ever af


* On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 10:47:35AM -0700, Kevin Buettner wrote:
> On Dec 5,  7:04am, Lucas Vogel wrote:
> 
> > Someone e-mail me when KDE/Gnome are more usable. I'm going back to
> > AfterStep.
> 
> I, for one, have very few problems with Gnome.  I think if you could
> figure out the reason for your keyboard problems, you'd be set.  Is
> it possible that there's something which SUSE configures differently
> that's causing your problems?
> 
> In any case, I think it would be worthwhile for you to track this
> problem down...
> 
> Kevin