Peter Bex wrote:-

> Hello all,
> 
> I just cvs upped the latest current, and built it. When I rebooted the computer
> all was fine until I tried a 'startx'. The screen mode got changed, but after
> that nothing - the screen stayed black. The system didn't react to any
> keypresses at all, and since the display got switched into a graphical mode
> there were no kernel messages to inspect.
> 
> /var/log/messages didn't contain any errors, nor did /var/log/XFree86.0.log.

I have a similar problem.

I recently bought a TFT display, and I have connected both the digital
and analogue outputs of the graphics card to the display.  When I start X,
the digital output is blank exactly as you describe above.  However,
because I have the analogue connection, the monitor "fails over" to it,
and I can continue to interact with the system.  Without the VGA input
I'm stuffed as you describe above.

Here's the curious thing: fixing it is a matter of switching back to
console from VGA, and then back to X again.  This resets something
somewhere, and I can now select the DVI input on the screen and get
a nice digital input.  I have no idea if this is caused by X or the
kernel.  I built both about 2-3 weeks ago.

Neil.