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Hey everyone,
So I updated my system yesterday. I rebooted my system and now when I xinit, xorg displays a black screen. I have no idea what could have caused this as I don't remember installing any update that would possibly break xorg so completely. I am running a Lenovo z580 with intel HD 4000 integrated graphics.
To be perfectly clear, I can boot into the initial shell perfectly (I don't know the name but it is the one that requires you to log in if you do not have a log in manager installed). I can do anything I want to in that shell, but if I xinit into Cinnamon, i3-twm, or Openbox, the screen goes black and I have to ctrl+alt+F2 to get back into the shell. I have found that xorg is running but it is only displaying a completely black screen for ever single desktop environment.
As this is in Newbie Corner, you can probably tell that I have no clue what I need to do to get this fixed. Please help.
Last edited by DaBungalow (2013-03-06 02:46:01)
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Post your xorg.0.log contents for more help!
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Thank you for telling me what I need to post instead of simply yelling at me for not giving enough information! I really appreciate it.
I posted the contents in this pastebin.
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Xorg looks ok!
How do you run xinit? (startx; xinit /usr/local/bin/???????)
Do you use .xinitrc file?
Do you use xorg.conf file? Or /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ for graphic card config?
Last edited by s1ln7m4s7r (2013-03-05 22:41:48)
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So far I have been using the .xinitrc file combined with xinit. I have xinit set up to take an argument (via the xinitrc file) and start either cinnamon (exec gnome-session-cinnamon), i3 (exec i3), or openbox (exec openbox). I think at one point I set up the xorg.conf file so that I could run Steam. The only change I made though was to use SNA instead of UXA(?). Other than that, I haven't really touched xorg's conf files (maybe I blacklisted one of the modules that the wiki said could cause issues with intel drivers???).
Thanks for the help!
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If you have xorg.conf you could rename it to .bak and try to run xinit without xorg.conf. Just to be sure that it isn't a bad option that is messing things up.
Could you also post the contents of your .xinitrc?
Also try to launch a graphical app to test if it does the same.
Example:
xinit /usr/X11R6/bin/xtermOffline
So something rather weird happened. I booted into the Arch shell and everything appears to be working fine now. The only thing I changed was the xinit instructions. Where as previously I was using exec i3 and exec openbox, I changed those to full file paths. I didn't touch cinnamon though and it is working fine too. Ugh. I could have sworn it was broken last night.
Oh well. Thanks for the help s1ln7m4s7r! I really appreciate it.
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