Date: Fri, 22 May 2015 19:50:19 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Hill <chris@monochrome.org> To: Matthew Seaman <matthew@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: is the forum down? Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1505221944160.36914@tripel.monochrome.org> In-Reply-To: <555F44C6.1000800@freebsd.org> References: <555F3C13.7010306@jrscorp.com> <555F44C6.1000800@freebsd.org>
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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 </> ]
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