Re: keyboard input trouble

[Patrick Welche <prlw1%cam.ac.uk@localhost>]

On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 01:00:03PM -0400, der Mouse wrote:
> > Along the way with many tests, I did see some characters, and it
> > looked just like what you would expect if getty were running on the
> > same terminal, but:  [...]
> 
> > I have run out of things to try - any suggestions?
> 
> I think my next step would be to ktrace the X server to find out
> whether it really is getting all the keystrokes it should be.  Then,
> depending on what I found, I'd either look for what's dropping
> keystrokes before they get to the server or what's dropping keystrokes
> after they get to the server.

I just observed the following:

At a root shell prompt on ttyE2, "ktrace -di startx". In an ssh'd xterm,
"kdump -l". Once kdump has settled down, type furiously in an xterm
started by startx. Nothing appears in the kdump. Hit ctrl-C. This ends
X (xinit: unexpected signal 2), and the furiously typed characters
are sitting in the ttyE2 terminal session.

So, keyboard input seems to carry on going to the terminal startx was
started in ?!

Confused...

Patrick