[Tfug] trouble shooting xorg

[Bowie J. Poag]

Try xinit, instead of startx... Same result?



christopher floess wrote:
> here's an interesting situation with which I could use some help: xorg
> has stopped working. I type startx and I get a black screen and that's
> it. It's really weird because it's not like the black screen you get
> when your monitor turns off, it looks like it's painted black, like
> there's something there. Unfortunately there is no mouse cursor and no
> window manager.
>
> Pressing ctrl+alt+backspace doesn't work, though ctrl+alt+delete does
> reboot. Ctrl+alt+F[x]  doesn't get me out to other virtual terminals
> either and I've checked the logs and run script, neither of which seem
> to show anything revealing.
>
> I've reinstalled Xorg and tried running a different window manager.
> Xorg -configure gets me a new xorg.conf.new, but running the resulting
> xorg.conf.new like this:
>
> X -config xorg.conf.new
>
> also produces the black screen. I've tried startx under several
> different users, including simply adding a new user, each with the
> same result. Using the system without X hasn't given me any problems
> and, as a final note, this happened without any prior abnormal
> behaviour, i.e a system crash or something. I simply shut my laptop
> down at school and then restarted it when I got home.
>
> Otherwise, my system is fine, in fact booting into windows and writing
> this email is working just fine. So, what's the problem? I have no
> idea. Hopefully someone will be able to help me here. Thanks in
> advance ~ Chris.
>
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