Dear Everyone,

here's a weird behavior:
while I'm in the frontend login, each key that I strike on my keyboard refreshes my display in different resolution.
I don't understand 'cause, yesterday, it was quite fine.
The only thing that I changed was putting the Num Lock on for the next restart.
I can not even do ALT+F1 to go to console.
Even ALT+Backspace and CTRL+ALT+Backspace can't bring me back before the graphical login.
I'm on Red Hat 9.0, using a MSI GeForce 4 MX440 on an Asus A7N8X Deluxe. I've got plenty of hard disk space and ram.
I remember that my XFree86config file correctly installed my Viewsonic and my video card (using nv for driver).
After all, it was working fine....

How can I stop the graphical login to load ?

Try Ctrl + Alt + F1
Append " 3" to your kernel arguments at boot.

You could also try using "Ctrl & Alt & +" and "Ctrl & Alt & -" to set the resolution once X has loaded.

Same result.
Like I said: EVERY key on my keyboard resizes my display without entering any caracter at all !
... and my keyboard is working just fine in other OSes.

In that case append " 3" (no quotes) to your kernel arguments at boot.

you mean editing Grub at start and entering that parameter after loading vmlinuz ? (same line ?)

Yes at the end of the ie:
kernel /vmlinuz.version OTHER PARAMETERS 3

Thanks for the help. I got in Kudzu, everything looks just fine. Then, on console, the keyboard behaves perfectly (well.... normally).
I logged in and typed startx.
Then.... same WEIRD behavior:

The mouse works fine but as soon as I type ANY key on my keyboard, BANG ! The display changes from 1024*768 to 640*480 and to 800*600 etc.. (KDE and Gnome)

Should I reinstalled an XFree86-kboard....rpm kind of thing ?
Or should I change my prescription ?



(I'll be back in 20 hours)

Do you have right settings for your keyboard in XF86Config?

Looks OK to me but If you see something suspicious...

I'll just copy & paste parts where the keyboard is mentionned...

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "DevInputMice" "AlwaysCore"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

# Specify which keyboard LEDs can be user-controlled (eg, with xset(1))
# Option "Xleds" "1 2 3"
# To disable the XKEYBOARD extension, uncomment XkbDisable.
# Option "XkbDisable"
# To customise the XKB settings to suit your keyboard, modify the
# lines below (which are the defaults). For example, for a non-U.S.
# keyboard, you will probably want to use:
# Option "XkbModel" "pc102"
# If you have a US Microsoft Natural keyboard, you can use:
# Option "XkbModel" "microsoft"
#
# Then to change the language, change the Layout setting.
# For example, a german layout can be obtained with:
# Option "XkbLayout" "de"
# or:
# Option "XkbLayout" "de"
# Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys"
#
# If you'd like to switch the positions of your capslock and
# control keys, use:
# Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:swapcaps"
# Or if you just want both to be control, use:
# Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:nocaps"
#
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "keyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Having still the same problem...

Here's a cue though:
While looking at my /var/log/gdm files, I've come across this warning line under the section The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:

> Warning: Multiple interpretations of "NoSymbol+AnyOfOrNone(all)"
Using last definition for duplicate fields

and this line comes after this:

expected keysym, got XF86_Prev_VMode: line 54 of XFree86

Obviously, that looks like Previous VideoMode, and that's exactly the reaction that I get when I strike any key on my keyboard.
I've checked line 54 in my XF86Config file but it's only a comment line.

Has anyone seen this before ?
And do you have ANY IDEA how I could get back my X server to work correctly ?

With the help from someone @ XFree86.org, my GDM now works again !
It seems that I had to refresh the file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XKeysymDB...

I am having the EXACT same problem and I would greatly appreciate if anyone knew how to fix it or if McNider could tell me. Thanks, its driving me crazy!!!

Hey crabbyman6,

This link should provide you with the latest XKeysymDB file:
http://cvsweb.xfree86.org/cvsweb/~ch...ype=text/plain

But don't take a chance and make a backup of your own before !