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deadline

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Registered: 2009-08-02

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startx makes monitor turn off permanently

Hey there,

I run Arch on a Thinkpad T61p.

I booted up earlier today and when I ran startx, the monitor of the laptop just shut off. The keyboard didn't do anything (such as killing X) and I had to just hit the power button to turn it off.

I upgraded the system with pacman, but despite nvidia & kernel upgrades, nothing changed. I used nvidia-xconfig to generate a new xorg.conf, but nothing changed. If I remove xorg.conf, X at least runs, except at the wrong screen resolution, and obviously, other problems obviously due to not using the nvidia X driver.

I'm totally stuck. Any help?

Last edited by deadline (2009-08-02 13:36:29)

miau

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 202

Re: startx makes monitor turn off permanently

What says the xorg.log file? Sounds like x is started with a resolution that your monitor can't handle.

SpeedVin

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From: Poland

Registered: 2009-04-29

Posts: 955

Re: startx makes monitor turn off permanently

Try adding Option "DPMS" to your monitor config section in your xorg.conf

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thayer

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From: Vancouver, BC

Registered: 2007-05-20

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Re: startx makes monitor turn off permanently

See this thread for the possible cause/info on this issue:

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=77119

Last edited by thayer (2009-08-02 19:06:29)

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