Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 05:18:05 -0400 From: "Jim Stapleton" <stapleton.41@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Blank screen after existing X windows Message-ID: <80f4f2b20607170218l4780a299s245198149f3b7f9@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <44BB4F34.7020709@gmail.com> References: <44BB4F34.7020709@gmail.com>
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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
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