Re: Speaking of black screens

On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 3:56 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > The screen then goes black (or dark gray, anyway) and > the mouse pointer can move, but nothing else happens. > I've waited two or three minutes with no change. > > I decide to go to a console screen and see what is >

Re: Speaking of black screens

I did some more experiments on my system, and it appears to be gdm that is screwed up. When I switch to kdm, all my problems with X session weirdness go away. With gdm, I saw two completely separate X sessions running in a 'ps'. One as user 42 (gdm) was running on vt1 and the other as my login

Re: Speaking of black screens

I get it with intel. I try and login (gdm->gnome w/o wayland) and every once in a while I just get a black/grey screen with the cursor in the middle. If I wait long enough I craps out with an oops message, next time I login all extensions are disabled. I figured it's a bug in one of the

Speaking of black screens

I only fooled with this for about 5 minutes, but I'm getting a black screen with GDM when I login. I just got the fedora 23 nvidia 340xx driver from rpmfusion which finally supports xorg server 1.18 (nouveau won't work at all with my card), and when I login with gdm, this is what happens on the 3