Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 10:46:23 +0100 From: Martin Miedema <martin.miedema@gmail.com> To: Jim Stapleton <stapleton.41@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Blank screen after existing X windows Message-ID: <44BB5C6F.2010504@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <80f4f2b20607170218l4780a299s245198149f3b7f9@mail.gmail.com> References: <44BB4F34.7020709@gmail.com> <80f4f2b20607170218l4780a299s245198149f3b7f9@mail.gmail.com>
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Jim Stapleton wrote: > On 7/17/06, Martin Miedema <martin.miedema@gmail.com> wrote: >> I just installed FreeBSD 6.1 on my Thinkpad T23 (one of my first times >> using FreeBSD) and after wrestling my self through configuring X I'm >> having the following problem: >> >> X starts correctly and opens KDE but when I log it out it just shows a >> blank screen. I can blindly type shutdown -p now or startx (which starts >> X again normally. >> >> The only way for me to shutdown X without facing the blank screen >> appears to be by using CTRL-F1 and pressing CTRL+C >> >> Please let me know if you need any configuration files or logs etc. >> >> Thanks in advance, >> >> Martin Miedema. >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >> "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> > > You might want to post the end of your xorg log file as of the error > (go to a non-x console after logging out of X but before restarting > it, grab the last full entry) > > I had this issue before, it was caused by not having X setup right (I > think I loaded a module it didn't like or had the driver settings > slightly off), either way, making the config file slightly more > conservative with the driver fixed it. I can't remember what I did, > but the xorg.conf file made the error pretty obvious. > > -Jim Stapleton > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > I have uploaded my Xorg.0.log / Xorg.0.log.old and xorg.conf in a zip file which is available at: http://cyberswordshideout.tk/bsdstuff.zip Thanks, Martin.
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