From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 17 16:56:03 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 7657416A4E9 for ; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 16:56:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stapleton.41@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.170]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CCEF43D53 for ; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 16:56:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from stapleton.41@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id m2so948455uge for ; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 09:56:01 -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=Z2Hy88CVCX/qmPsL4KwGLKLT94QkF6Z1EigrBFY4jP3gbCz1/9MIMGXoP06zwYlFG9RHvAok5Qpjcv6eK4wjlD2Oa2EyDxFij6NyzBIcAE03TcvSLg71gcytR4zjX/eFboW7UY3gLfwFai7j3ZL4Gm7IO4m7dzRZzRku5BqKots= Received: by 10.67.24.13 with SMTP id b13mr2718458ugj; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 09:56:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.67.98.18 with HTTP; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 09:56:00 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <80f4f2b20607170956y4dc024ccsad9d1b3461824e4e@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 12:56:00 -0400 From: "Jim Stapleton" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <44BB5C6F.2010504@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> <80f4f2b20607170218l4780a299s245198149f3b7f9@mail.gmail.com> <44BB5C6F.2010504@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 16:56:03 -0000 On 7/17/06, Martin Miedema wrote: > 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. > Please put the file in the mail to the newsgroup, or if you really don't want to put it here, host the plain-text, and not in an archive. Thanks, -Jim