Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 23:07:48 -0700 From: David Benfell <benfell@parts-unknown.org> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: About the black screen (Otherwise solved) Re: All of a sudden, problems with X Message-ID: <20140722060749.5487612C10D1@mail.parts-unknown.org> In-Reply-To: <20140722061900.008b35db.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <20140722024643.GA29536@munich.parts-unknown.org> <20140722051423.0cf369b9.freebsd@edvax.de> <20140722040440.GA16353@munich.parts-unknown.org> <20140722061900.008b35db.freebsd@edvax.de>
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This is a MIME GnuPG-signed message. If you see this text, it means that your E-mail or Usenet software does not support MIME signed messages. The Internet standard for MIME PGP messages, RFC 2015, was published in 1996. To open this message correctly you will need to install E-mail or Usenet software that supports modern Internet standards. --=_munich.parts-unknown.org-12720-1406009268-0001 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Polytropon writes: >> So how would I get a prompt back in this situation? > > That's a really hard question. :-) > > In situatins where X is exiting, but failing to restore the > text mode console, there usually is no real way to cure this > problem. I had a comparable problem with my nVidia graphics > card when switching to text mode from a running X with the > Ctrl+Alt+PF1 key combination - black screen, "no signal", > switched back Ctrl+Alt+PF9 - X as expected, and back Ctrl+Alt+PF1 - > and the text mode was there. However, when X is _not_ running, > switching "back and forth" is impossible. You could try to > blindly enter "startx" and hope it helps. It probably won't > help... There is a note in UPDATING (did I read it beforehand? Of course not.) about some video chips--including Intel, which mine is--that says that Ctrl/Alt/F[n] won't work. Apparently X isn't cleaning up after itself correctly when exiting either. So the message here seems to be, once you start X, you'd better be happy with it. Because you might not be leaving (short of a reboot). But what this also suggests is that, should I need it, the Xorg.conf.new I generated might actually be okay. Because it's the exit that's screwed up rather than anything to do with the configuration. Thanks again! -- David Benfell See https://parts-unknown.org/node/2 if you do not understand the attachment. --=_munich.parts-unknown.org-12720-1406009268-0001 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIVAwUAU83/tBV64x4SNmArAQpGNA//dvYFyT9F2eG/KswcSzVcCzDM5ZtLMmV/ cj8/nxbE2pMZnulpigg02TSzYjAG0EK5ftRNsLC9DffsCwaqO6uGpgHUiZsVJwMr 0pfh5pBbwagwO4YsR72aau37LuiAfgrx2VUXVJEjWTn67ostsl7RIbRXjH9ikvRo JeJZhkYprteiaigckZoF2eYPgOTXYouVd1aF79bp1OHB9u1la1ApHSrgcAtbAAao a8/OFZ9vZeDsbFcVV6rXzQUcG74DQzLuGqfcp0VESYCd7dopXhFJoQ7K4iAQ9OUj LY27qv4EQ0P46wwLBzSu1SCI93ED5jCyIopiLHC9tKr/dHZMiUnJL/T3za1SFUve 3rndF307I5ULl2q9We609CUqfz7CF6JLBmkiQdG3jra5xOfXw9L2bQ5W/ILWmpde 5faenCeY7w8ttmhZu9s2QV0ptVIMljZSrkGHAlY9WWXghT/oOuEXkpRaom4ovW8u FAqNcpa1xozfxVNmpWBYHacc4CNXYWPryfz1tZtKteMoSu4dc/0yXXpcWkbMAGnD DjbhuLp+5ipiIYrjnNnHiqUWeFxWbyuTyvf8v/2Hq/yzIMlJYsBhrY2/kijAS4RX CeZybHbrh6Q123/fx9a+TWZjZjRXOXUiVLJ38INCqee/YzBUkpRrtcc44yl4BysF mRvr8gdwjEQ= =1bmU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=_munich.parts-unknown.org-12720-1406009268-0001--
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