From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 17 09:44:37 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 BFB7016A4E0 for ; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 09:44:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from martin.miedema@gmail.com) Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.185]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12A4043D49 for ; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 09:44:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from martin.miedema@gmail.com) Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id n29so459200nfc for ; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 02:44:36 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=lLBf///n0J0kL6DNkInJX+i1G9wqKpEpPci22OHhE/dTNFvpqPcfLTy+AEoJLuHw07In3D1w/o+NeSm4/sGbqsj7ijhlAa3vLQ0gffSxGEYsBUWlqmMgqXiC5AS1Acaw1d6cLiJHSNOEYH4Z3b2RfDqiK2NNeEMKVuZR0QIEeUQ= Received: by 10.48.242.9 with SMTP id p9mr1794996nfh; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 02:44:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?10.137.41.178? ( [193.95.172.210]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id p43sm1379239nfa.2006.07.17.02.44.34; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 02:44:34 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <44BB5C6F.2010504@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 10:46:23 +0100 From: Martin Miedema User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (Windows/20060308) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jim Stapleton References: <44BB4F34.7020709@gmail.com> <80f4f2b20607170218l4780a299s245198149f3b7f9@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <80f4f2b20607170218l4780a299s245198149f3b7f9@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 09:44:37 -0000 Jim Stapleton wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > 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" > I have uploaded my Xorg.0.log / Xorg.0.log.old and xorg.conf in a zip file which is available at: http://cyberswordshideout.tk/bsdstuff.zip Thanks, Martin.