Blank screen after existing X windows

[Jim Stapleton]

On 7/17/06, Martin Miedema <martin.miedema at gmail.com> 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.
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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