From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 15 14:58:24 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB93C16A60D for ; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 14:58:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cptsalek@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.172]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35F8D43D78 for ; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 14:58:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cptsalek@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id o2so147709uge for ; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 06:58:03 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Jb6hr0TPCA1lp923OgTi1FlTrvcUpnIiz1RMbTtNBdM+AaPpM7VwdfzBtyrnICP86skfrFTHr42KHxggDjKiYTRihR1vWx4aZG4cYoZhtMbsBz83zdtD4PVRzHU/XnaTXKqwH9TA0NZOP/QEw7ISIe3zTqpNaQ2vQmvb3RZTuNE= Received: by 10.82.118.2 with SMTP id q2mr310122buc.1163602682677; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 06:58:02 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.82.159.9 with HTTP; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 06:58:02 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <14989d6e0611150658t2d0dfbdbm35b2998e03f311d0@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 15:58:02 +0100 From: "Christian Walther" To: "Ian Smith" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20061113200345.B476516A4F5@hub.freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Blank screen after using X X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 14:58:25 -0000 Hi Ian, thank you for your answer. I edited /etc/sysctl.conf and /boot/loader.conf, adding the parameter/values you've given me, and rebooted the machine afterwards, but it didn't change anything. As long as X is running, I can switch between the text consoles and X without any problem. But as soon as I quit X the screen wents black and is unusable until I do a cold boot. I can switch to a console and start X again, thou, but the text consoles remain unusable. Sorry for repeating the issue, but maybe I mislead you, because this is just one problem (at least as far as I can tell). Trying to update to a new BIOS version might a solution, I should check if there is anything newer available. I tried several configuration up to now, there are many location where you can download them. All of them had the same problem, so I'm not entirely convinced that this is an X configuration issue. But could you sent me your configuration, so I can give this a try? If it doesn't behave as my configuration does I might be able to locate the problem. Cheers Christian