From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 17 08:20:07 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3C5A106566B for ; Wed, 17 Feb 2010 08:20:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (gate6.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:2001:8b0:151:1::1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 624A08FC15 for ; Wed, 17 Feb 2010 08:20:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from seedling.black-earth.co.uk (seedling.black-earth.co.uk [81.187.76.163]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o1H8K1TY003217 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 17 Feb 2010 08:20:01 GMT (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) X-DKIM: Sendmail DKIM Filter v2.8.3 smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk o1H8K1TY003217 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=infracaninophile.co.uk; s=201001-infracaninophile; t=1266394801; bh=D1miyA3BWK9dlADuBEcdBAb5FTciHK0vVzsOk3RUhy8=; h=Message-ID:Date:From:MIME-Version:To:CC:Subject:References: In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Cc:Content-Type: Date:From:In-Reply-To:Message-ID:Mime-Version:References:To; z=Message-ID:=20<4B7BA6B1.2040209@infracaninophile.co.uk>|Date:=20W ed,=2017=20Feb=202010=2008:20:01=20+0000|From:=20Matthew=20Seaman= 20|Organization:=20Infracaninophi le|User-Agent:=20Mozilla/5.0=20(Macintosh=3B=20U=3B=20Intel=20Mac= 20OS=20X=2010.6=3B=20en-GB=3B=20rv:1.9.1.7)=20Gecko/20100111=20Thu nderbird/3.0.1|MIME-Version:=201.0|To:=20Christian=20Schramm=20|CC:=20freebsd-stable@freebsd.org|Sub ject:=20Re:=20blank=20X=20screen=20with=20differnt=20cards|Referen ces:=20<6101e8c41002091524q25a7e026u585e575eb4f1589c@mail.gmail.co m>=09<20100211074933.GJ9748@acme.spoerlein.net>=09<1266080709.8945 2.21.camel@balrog.2hip.net>=09<201002131137.34812.npapke@acm.org>= 09<1266096425.89452.30.camel@balrog.2hip.net>=09<20100215142305.3f 0d7e65@miknet.dk>=09<1266249418.11131.7.camel@balrog.2hip.net>=20< 4B7AFA79.6060508@parative.org>|In-Reply-To:=20<4B7AFA79.6060508@pa rative.org>|X-Enigmail-Version:=201.0|Content-Type:=20text/plain=3 B=20charset=3DUTF-8|Content-Transfer-Encoding:=207bit; b=NfGTCSBAEf1vIcJohvokM8Mr5QTk1gNijS/ItwIDWHBxi9oJW5aACkzk8rIrfKa7l MW51V/HnTQmA0p54GinwCAxqq59KrmYV2QI3CFYj/y3qvOlca1h1DiAcHcskwdXFvK vmL4c0t1nBMsFN7G0XzMiwn1DwqbTcPI2mV1HOpI= Message-ID: <4B7BA6B1.2040209@infracaninophile.co.uk> Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 08:20:01 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman Organization: Infracaninophile User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-GB; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100111 Thunderbird/3.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christian Schramm 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> In-Reply-To: <4B7AFA79.6060508@parative.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.95.3 at happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,SPF_FAIL autolearn=no version=3.3.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.0 (2010-01-18) on happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: blank X screen with differnt cards X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 08:20:07 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkt7prAACgkQ8Mjk52CukIwNHgCggXJOsPnYCxrk8NzYpTaYHhtL 0HYAn2CrOYCEQpaVO4QA/9uftqDhCWZt =Pven -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----