Sounds like the "State-saving bug".

I posted about this for my trident card and they got a patch for it.

I saw this on a neomagic driven xfree (netbsd) also.

P

On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 01:11:16PM +0200, Daniel Eggert wrote:
> I must have missed something. I'm trying to use my TNT23 card with X11.
> 
> Once I run
>   # startx
> all I get is a black screen with nothing on it. The console is still
> running in the background, and I can reboot the box by entering 'reboot'.
> 
> What does this indicate? How can I debug this? There are no error messages
> in the X11 log file.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Daniel

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