Blank screen after existing X windows

Martin Miedema martin.miedema at gmail.com
Mon Jul 17 09:44:37 UTC 2006


Jim Stapleton wrote:
> 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
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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.


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