From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 15 16:32:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.monochrome.org (monochrome.org [206.64.112.124]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAB2037B881 for ; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 16:32:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chris@monochrome.org) Received: from localhost (chris@localhost) by mail.monochrome.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id TAA19288; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 19:32:15 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from chris@monochrome.org) Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 19:32:15 -0500 (EST) From: Chris Hill X-Sender: chris@mail To: spider 90 Cc: FreeBSD Questions List Subject: Re: windowsx shut down In-Reply-To: <20000316001204.41888.qmail@hotmail.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, spider 90 wrote: > ...when I want to leave or exit the windows manager program the screen > goes blank instead of taking me back to the shell text screen. > Occasionally I do get that screen when exiting windows manager, but > usually I get a blank screen. > I ... am running a ... 15 inch monitor, vodoo banshee card, ... ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Not to belabor the obvious, but it almost sounds like your monitor is having trouble re-syncing to the new frequency of the plain text screen. If this is a fairly new 15-inch monitor, then chances are it's a low-budget special. Have you tried using a different monitor? -- Chris Hill chris@monochrome.org [place witty saying here] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message