From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 22 23:52:43 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E4AA8227; Fri, 22 May 2015 23:52:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.monochrome.org (e.febed1.client.atlantech.net [209.190.254.14]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "mail", Issuer "mail" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A29141FB3; Fri, 22 May 2015 23:52:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.11] (tripel [192.168.1.11]) by mail.monochrome.org (8.14.9/8.14.9) with ESMTP id t4MNnfnL054109 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 22 May 2015 19:49:41 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from chris@monochrome.org) Date: Fri, 22 May 2015 19:50:19 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Hill To: Matthew Seaman cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: is the forum down? In-Reply-To: <555F44C6.1000800@freebsd.org> Message-ID: References: <555F3C13.7010306@jrscorp.com> <555F44C6.1000800@freebsd.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.20 (BSF 67 2015-01-07) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 22 May 2015 23:52:44 -0000 On Fri, 22 May 2015, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 05/22/15 15:24, J2R2 P wrote: >> Alternatively, could you please point me to a resource that clearly >> explains how to allow the user to switch to a regular xterm console >> after starting xfce4 using startx; and how to return to the normal xterm >> after login out or exiting the xfce4 session. I seem to just get the >> monitor turned off no matter all the changes I have made to many config >> files during the last few days. > > Uh... 'xterm' is an X client program that needs to have an X server to > connect to -- ie. you have to startx before you can run xterm. Show us > your /var/log/Xorg.0.log and we can tell you if that's what is biting you. > > Do you mean returning to the system console after running X? That > depends on your graphics hardware IIRC. For certain Intel chipsets, > once you've switched to X windows, you can't get back to the system > console without rebooting. If you really need to run X on such a setup, > I'd recommend setting up slim (x11/slim) or a similar display manager > and always working in the X environment. Or else avoid X completely. I had this problem (blank screen when exiting X) while I was setting up a new machine two months ago. The solution turned out to be to add kern.vty=vt ...to /boot/loader.conf, as described in the link Polytropon posted. This is on 10.1-RELEASE amd64. My graphics chipset is an Intel Q45 running on a Core2 Duo CPU. -- Chris Hill chris@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging ]