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abergou
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Joined: 12 Jun 2002
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 Posted: Sun Feb 09, 2003 6:24 am Post subject: yet another xfree problem? |
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Hello, I just wanted to know if anyone had any ideas on what the heck could be causing this problem:
I compiled and installed xfree-4.2.99 (this is without reemerging kde btw) and it worked (after playing around with the config file a bit -- don't know why but I had to set the DotClock lower - probably driver issues). So anyhow it worked. Then without warning after a reboot it simply stopped working. My machine still boots it doesn't appear to be harddrive corruption - I tried reemerging X, but whenever I do startx or try to go into X in any way I simply get a blank screen.... I don't think that I changed anything. Nothing seems to really help - I reemerged X and nothing (my logs show nothing interesting). Any ideas on what to try? |
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Carlos
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Location: Providence, RI
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| Posted: Sun Feb 09, 2003 8:21 am Post subject: Re: yet another xfree problem? |
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| abergou wrote: | | but whenever I do startx or try to go into X in any way I simply get a blank screen.... I don't think that I changed anything. Nothing seems to really help - I reemerged X and nothing (my logs show nothing interesting). Any ideas on what to try? |
When you get the blank screen, can you switch back to the console? What happens to the X process - does it keep running while giving you a blank screen?
Also, just for kicks, maybe we could look at your log anyway. 
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abergou
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When you get the blank screen, can you switch back to the console?
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This actually depends on the settings in my XF86Config - it usually would just remain black even when I tried to switch back to console.
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What happens to the X process - does it keep running while giving you a blank screen?
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I think that the X process keeps running because when I did a control-alt-delete my machine would respond and reboot.... Other than that I didn't know how to tell if things were still running.
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Also, just for kicks, maybe we could look at your log anyway.
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Sorry, but I can't do that right now  , since I downgraded to XFree86-4.2.1-r2 for now. That worked fine by the way - X booted as expected. I think that for now I'm going to wait for XFree86-4.3 to be a bit more stable before I switch to it, however if you have any ideas on what the heck the problem could possibly have been I would love to hear them. Thank! |
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