Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 08:20:01 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Christian Schramm <christian.schramm@parative.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: blank X screen with differnt cards Message-ID: <4B7BA6B1.2040209@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4B7AFA79.6060508@parative.org> References: <6101e8c41002091524q25a7e026u585e575eb4f1589c@mail.gmail.com> <20100211074933.GJ9748@acme.spoerlein.net> <1266080709.89452.21.camel@balrog.2hip.net> <201002131137.34812.npapke@acm.org> <1266096425.89452.30.camel@balrog.2hip.net> <20100215142305.3f0d7e65@miknet.dk> <1266249418.11131.7.camel@balrog.2hip.net> <4B7AFA79.6060508@parative.org>
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On 16/02/2010 20:05, Christian Schramm wrote:
> I press Xorg -configure and X -config /root/xorg.conf.new but my CRT
> Screen is blank. I can switch in tty0 an kill Xorg with CTRL-C.
This is actually perfectly normal nowadays. For reasons impenetrable
to us poor mortals, the developers of Xorg have decreed that the
default shall be that when testing X displays a blank, black screen
impossible to distinguish from certain classes of things /going
horribly wrong/(tm).
If you want the old grey patterned screen, try:
# X -config /root/xorg.conf -retro
It's all documented in the handbook:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html
Cheers,
Matthew
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Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard
Flat 3
PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate
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