On 2016-12-17 23:35 -0500, Felix Miata wrote: > Rodolfo Medina composed on 2016-12-16 09:34 (UTC): > >> After logging out X (I have Openbox as window manager) with >> Ctrl-alt-Backspace >> (or also mouse right-clicking), tty1 is completely obscured and then I have >> to >> do Alt-F2 (so going to tty2) and Alt-F1 and then I see tty1. In Google I >> found >> many similar problems but of no help to me. Any suggestions? > > I wonder if this problem's root could be related to this?: > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90572 > startx exits to black screen
Might well be the case. >> Graphics: Card: NVIDIA NV5 [Riva TNT2 Model 64 / Model 64 Pro] >> Display Server: X.Org 1.19.0 drivers: nouveau (unloaded: fbdev,vesa) > > Cannot replicate here on Stretch running TDE on somewhat newer yet old > GeForce: > Graphics: Card: NVIDIA NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400] > Display Server: X.org 1.19.0 drivers: modesetting (unloaded: vesa) > > Note use of modesetting rather than nouveau. Maybe purging > xserver-xorg-video-nouveau is worth a try? As a troubleshooting attempt yes, but I would not recommend the modesetting driver on such ancient hardware. Using glamor[1] is not going to work well, if at all. Cheers, Sven 1. https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/Glamor/