Subject: [Fwd: Re: X is black]
To: None <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
From: luc desfosses <desfosses.luc@wanadoo.fr>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 01/06/2006 01:02:51
Christoph Kaegi a écrit :

>On 03.01-13:55, Luc DESFOSSES wrote:
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>>I have a Dell Latitude D610, and i install NetBSD-3.
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>I have a D600 and I also installed NetBSD-3 during
>the holidays.
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>>All occurs well, until I try to configure X.
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>>I try XFree86 -configure, and then XFree86 -xf86config ~/XF86Config.new
>>or
>>xf86cfg, but in both case, the screen turn black.
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>I had the same problem (I still have) but I found out, that
>it only happens the second and subsequent times I start X.
>The first time after booting, X starts up and works ok.
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>I'm also interested in a solution to this. 
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>Ah, btw. it also isn't possible to switch to textmode by 
>pressing <ctrl>+<alt>+<f1> and back to graphics mode by 
>pressing <ctrl>+<alt>+<f5>.
>I get a black screen with a square cursor blinking in
>the topleft corner and the machine is frozen.
>
>Chris
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I have exactly the same problem, but sometime, I can go back to text 
mode, and kill
X in another terminal.
but, if I go to the term that have launch X, and then do <ctrl>+c, the 
system freeze.