Ray, Thanks for the response. Here are the answers to your questions, in no particular order. I changed the vsync and hsync values according to the specs I looked up on www.monitorworld.com, which are also consistent with the monitor type: a mid-to-low-end 15" monitor.
CTRL-ALT-F* does not work. There are no X processes running- so X did, in fact, fail to start. I tried turning off the monitor, disconnecting it from the video card, powering it on, turning it off, reconnecting it, and powering it on again. The monitor will "click" after a few seconds, as if it is going into suspend mode, but the power light won't change to orange. I can switch to a different virtual terminal, blindly login and type commands, and they will work (e.g. shutdown -r now will reboot the machine) . So it looks like the display is being knocked out without coming back up once X terminates. I am using an NVidia TNT2 video card with the standard nv driver. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ray Olszewski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, January 12, 2003 2:51 PM Subject: Re: X won't start, no errors in XFree86.0.log > At 02:38 PM 1/12/03 -0500, Jonathan Kallay wrote: > >I have been able to start X Windows in the past, but after plugging in a > >different monitor (and changing the configuration file), startx will cause > >the screen to go blank and never come back. CTRL-ALT-BKSP won't work. The > >only way that I can see what is going on is by telnetting in from a > >different computer and running startx. No errors appear in the log file, > >other than "Failed to load GLCore (module does not exist, 0)". The very > >bottom of the output reads: > > (II) [GLX]: Initializing GLX extension > >XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0" > > after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining. > > > >Any suggestions? > > When I experience similar problems, the usual cause is a vsync or hsync > value that the monitor does not support. Sensible monitors (pretty much all > of them, these days) tuen themselves off under when they get settings that > are inconsistent with their hardware capabilities. Since you say you > plugged in a difeent monitor, this seems like the first thing to check ... > that is, when you changed the configuration file, did you do so in a way > consistent with the new hardware? I can't be more specific because you > haven't provided any details (like what version of XFree86, what video > driver, and what monitor ... and what config-file changes). > > Aside from that, you say that "CTRL-ALT-BKSP won't work". So ... > > Does CTRL-ALT-F1 (or the F* value for whatever vt you ran startx from) work > to restore a console? > > Does killing the startx process from the telnet session restore a console? > > Does flipping through your specified modes (with CTRL-ALT-+) ever produce a > mode that works? > > Does powering the monitor off, then back on, have any effect? > > BTW, you characterize this problem as " X won't start". My response assumes > this characterization is wrong ... that is, that if you do a "ps ax" from > yout telnet session, you will see X processes (startx, X, maybe a font > manager or a wm, and maybe others) listed as running. If I am mistaken in > this ... if instead you mean that startx actually exits and still leaves > the display blank, without a vt showing, please be specific about that. > > > -- > -------------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"-------- > Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo > Palo Alto, California, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
