Re: Blank screen after existing X windows
On 7/17/06, Martin Miedema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I just installed FreeBSD 6.1 on my Thinkpad T23 (one of my first times using FreeBSD) and after wrestling my self through configuring X I'm having the following problem: X starts correctly and opens KDE but when I log it out it just shows a blank screen. I can blindly type shutdown -p now or startx (which starts X again normally. The only way for me to shutdown X without facing the blank screen appears to be by using CTRL-F1 and pressing CTRL+C Please let me know if you need any configuration files or logs etc. Thanks in advance, Martin Miedema. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" You might want to post the end of your xorg log file as of the error (go to a non-x console after logging out of X but before restarting it, grab the last full entry) I had this issue before, it was caused by not having X setup right (I think I loaded a module it didn't like or had the driver settings slightly off), either way, making the config file slightly more conservative with the driver fixed it. I can't remember what I did, but the xorg.conf file made the error pretty obvious. -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Blank screen after existing X windows
Jim Stapleton wrote: On 7/17/06, Martin Miedema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I just installed FreeBSD 6.1 on my Thinkpad T23 (one of my first times using FreeBSD) and after wrestling my self through configuring X I'm having the following problem: X starts correctly and opens KDE but when I log it out it just shows a blank screen. I can blindly type shutdown -p now or startx (which starts X again normally. The only way for me to shutdown X without facing the blank screen appears to be by using CTRL-F1 and pressing CTRL+C Please let me know if you need any configuration files or logs etc. Thanks in advance, Martin Miedema. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" You might want to post the end of your xorg log file as of the error (go to a non-x console after logging out of X but before restarting it, grab the last full entry) I had this issue before, it was caused by not having X setup right (I think I loaded a module it didn't like or had the driver settings slightly off), either way, making the config file slightly more conservative with the driver fixed it. I can't remember what I did, but the xorg.conf file made the error pretty obvious. -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" I have uploaded my Xorg.0.log / Xorg.0.log.old and xorg.conf in a zip file which is available at: http://cyberswordshideout.tk/bsdstuff.zip Thanks, Martin. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Blank screen after existing X windows
On 7/17/06, Martin Miedema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jim Stapleton wrote: > On 7/17/06, Martin Miedema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I just installed FreeBSD 6.1 on my Thinkpad T23 (one of my first times >> using FreeBSD) and after wrestling my self through configuring X I'm >> having the following problem: >> >> X starts correctly and opens KDE but when I log it out it just shows a >> blank screen. I can blindly type shutdown -p now or startx (which starts >> X again normally. >> >> The only way for me to shutdown X without facing the blank screen >> appears to be by using CTRL-F1 and pressing CTRL+C >> >> Please let me know if you need any configuration files or logs etc. >> >> Thanks in advance, >> >> Martin Miedema. >> ___ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >> "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" >> > > You might want to post the end of your xorg log file as of the error > (go to a non-x console after logging out of X but before restarting > it, grab the last full entry) > > I had this issue before, it was caused by not having X setup right (I > think I loaded a module it didn't like or had the driver settings > slightly off), either way, making the config file slightly more > conservative with the driver fixed it. I can't remember what I did, > but the xorg.conf file made the error pretty obvious. > > -Jim Stapleton > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > I have uploaded my Xorg.0.log / Xorg.0.log.old and xorg.conf in a zip file which is available at: http://cyberswordshideout.tk/bsdstuff.zip Thanks, Martin. Please put the file in the mail to the newsgroup, or if you really don't want to put it here, host the plain-text, and not in an archive. Thanks, -Jim ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
