From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 22 21:53: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from home.worldy.com (ns1.WORLDY.COM [209.5.30.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62EEE37B557 for ; Wed, 22 Mar 2000 21:53:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tracker@worldy.com) Received: from tracker (ppp121.WORLDY.COM [209.5.30.172]) by home.worldy.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id AAA25024; Thu, 23 Mar 2000 00:52:51 -0500 Message-ID: <38D96A9D.41C67EA6@worldy.com> Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 00:51:41 +0000 From: David Banning Organization: SKy-Tracker of Canada Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: BobF Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: screen shuts off when return from X References: <00032217483307.00481@desk1> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG BobF wrote: > > On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, David Banning wrote: > > FreeBSD 3.4 > > After starting X with startx - Ctrl-Alt-F1 only brings me a dark screen. > > Hitting Alt F4 does bring me back to X but I notice > > the screen takes a moment to turn on. > > Exiting X leaves me completely in the dark. > > I have one of those screens that is auto power down when you leave it. > > Could something be triggering it to shut off? > > What kind of video card are you using? The problem seemed to be that I had recently re-installed xfree86 - that must have overwiritten my X configuration slightly. I just reconfigured X using XF86Setup and now everything is fine. Thanks Bob. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message