From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 11 17:53:42 2002 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 118BA37B404 for ; Mon, 11 Nov 2002 17:53:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from lancelot.cosmicfire.net (lancelot.cosmicfire.net [64.32.246.114]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E323843E4A for ; Mon, 11 Nov 2002 17:53:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gs@vacfu.org) Received: (qmail 11330 invoked from network); 12 Nov 2002 01:53:03 -0000 Received: from dh-fw-1.oru.se (HELO rainbowpeace.DH-FW-1.oru.se) (gs@vacfu.org@130.243.97.72) by vacfu.org with SMTP; 12 Nov 2002 01:53:03 -0000 Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 02:51:58 +0100 From: Gustaf Sjoberg To: tkernes@buckwestern.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X = black screen Message-Id: <20021112025158.090e00a5.gs@vacfu.org> In-Reply-To: <20021112012857.GX35297@vectors.cx> References: <20021112012857.GX35297@vectors.cx> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.3 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.7) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hi, Try to look in /var/log/XFree86.0.log, you might find something there. good luck, Gustaf Sjoberg On Mon, 11 Nov 2002 17:28:57 -0800 Adam Weinberger wrote: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > >>> (11.11.2002 @ 1707 PST): Thomas Kernes said, in 0.8K: << >> When I 'startx' I get a black screen and ctrl-alt-backspace won't even break >> out of it. I have changed the .xinitrc to 'exec twm' instead of gnome. I >> have gone through the configuration numerous times and with no luck. >>> end of "X = black screen" from Thomas Kernes << > >You can remove the .xinitrc for the purposes of testing. 'exec twm' is >implicit, and 'exec gnome' is not the way to start up the GNOME >environment (exec gnome-session). > >Do you get any errors back at the console? X will usually tell you >exactly what's causing it to die, though it doesn't always die >gracefully. > >/Adam > > >- -- >Adam Weinberger >adam@vectors.cx >adamw@FreeBSD.ORG > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) > >iD8DBQE90FlZo8KM2ULHQ/0RAo6kAJ4pUPVqULI2hmhNk/QJQRdJVBn5aACffBZ/ >6q3wuWROOcfJwrbl9y5ABxY= >=99ph >-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- Gustaf Sjoberg <(" <) <(" )> <( ")> (> ")> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message