[SOLVED] X only works once per boot

dninja · 2006-05-02 22:42:29

I've got a problem with Xorg, when I boot I can run startx once and have a happy working X, if I shut it down then start up again I just get a black screen.

I've tried with fluxbox and icewm so it doesn't appear to be the window manager.

A ps shows that both X and the window manager are running, killing the window manager drops the user back to the command prompt.

This is on a laptop with a
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device (rev 01)
video card.

Anyone else experience this?

T-Dawg · 2006-05-02 22:59:07

check your permissions on /var/tmp. If it isn't 1777, change it.

dninja · 2006-05-03 08:11:03

The permissions are correct.

Any more ideas?

jaboua · 2006-05-03 13:33:37

I've heard that some drivers cause trouble when switching to/from framebuffer, maybe try booting without framebuffer?

dninja · 2006-05-03 13:36:27

That sounds promising, when I tried ubuntu on this machine I had to disable framebuffer when booting the install cd or I got a really distored display.

I'll give that a go.

ingvildr · 2006-05-03 17:40:29

i used to have that problem too when i had my old pc, making sure i was using the i810 driver always sorted it

dninja · 2006-05-04 19:49:30

ingvildr, you got it. I didn't have the i810 driver installed. Installed it and all happy now.

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[SOLVED] X only works once per boot

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