From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 17 09:18:07 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 D394316A4DF for ; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 09:18:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stapleton.41@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 3188943D73 for ; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 09:18:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from stapleton.41@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id m2so751801uge for ; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 02:18:05 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=cwQNboMjQLUuhh/e4EgMfupVevcvU97Rb8731MrYx0LP54tAUJlxamC8GOmPwBDmgkWkdnJA6Wko1Qv0FWpQ0FKA7OCnGpOmdKWdL2+IjnxQd7FFVb5gH7o4YR6xONiyDsR/GBNtfSumBlNXKnnfU8WQQSo65DaVtFtwLlSJ/dk= Received: by 10.66.240.12 with SMTP id n12mr2289866ugh; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 02:18:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.67.98.18 with HTTP; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 02:18:05 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <80f4f2b20607170218l4780a299s245198149f3b7f9@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 05:18:05 -0400 From: "Jim Stapleton" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <44BB4F34.7020709@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <44BB4F34.7020709@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Blank screen after existing X windows 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: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 09:18:07 -0000 On 7/17/06, Martin Miedema 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