Blank screen after using X

Christian Walther cptsalek at gmail.com
Mon Nov 13 16:52:29 UTC 2006


Sorry...

I forgot to mention that the machine is an IBM Thinkpad T23 with S3
Savage chip, max. resolution is at 1024x768.

On 13/11/06, Christian Walther <cptsalek at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using FreeBSD 6.x for a couple of month now, and I'm quite happy with it.
> Since the beginning I've a problem that I was unable to fix: When I
> quit X, or X dies for some reason, the screen remains black. I can
> type blindly, starting X again, or doing a shutdown.
>
> I searched the net a found an older thread from another FreeBSD-User,
> posted to this mailing list. Link to the initial message:
> http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=195067+0+archive/2006/freebsd-questions/20060723.freebsd-questions
>
> It was suggested that this would be a configuration problem, that
> something has to be changed in xorg.conf. But there isn't any solution
> provided, so I hope that someone here can help me.
>
> I'll attach Xorg.0.log with the latest crash information (it complains
> a segfault at the end), and my current xorg.conf.
>
> What can I change to make this problem disappear?
>
> Cheers
> Christian
>
>
>


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