Startx: Blank screen on MacBook air(3,2)

Ahad12 · 2014-04-02 23:14:28

When I execute startx, everything seems to be working at first,but then it shows a blank screen.
The Xorg log shows no errors so nothing seems to be going wrong.

Output of ~/.xinitrc:

exec twm

Rexilion · 2014-04-03 05:11:06

Try 'exec xterm' ?

Ahad12 · 2014-04-03 21:42:22

I did that but xterm does not show up.

\hbar · 2014-04-03 23:01:00

What video drivers are you using?

Trilby · 2014-04-03 23:47:25

Feel free to conclude these are silly questions - but I've seen enough of these to want to check: can you elaborate on "blank screen"? Is it black? Is it grey? Other colors? Is there any sort of cursor visible, blinking or otherwise? Are there any streaks, stripes, or other 'artifacts'?

Are there any other video devices connected? (e.g. a laptop with an external monitor)

Ahad12 · 2014-04-04 00:15:58

Trilby wrote:

Feel free to conclude these are silly questions - but I've seen enough of these to want to check: can you elaborate on "blank screen"? Is it black? Is it grey? Other colors? Is there any sort of cursor visible, blinking or otherwise? Are there any streaks, stripes, or other 'artifacts'?
Are there any other video devices connected? (e.g. a laptop with an external monitor)

The blank screen is black,no blinking,cursor or anything. Just a black screen. There are no video devices connected,only devices are the external mouse and the mac charger.
Hbar,the video driver I am currently using in nvidia,as installed from the nvidia package.

Rexilion · 2014-04-04 05:12:41

Do you see any output in dmesg?

\hbar · 2014-04-04 08:08:31

Can you switch to a virtual console?

I also use the nvidia driver, which makes it so that the consoles are blanked out (the screen turns off when switching to a console). Therefore if there is an error that stops the X server, then instead of showing the console which started the server in the first place, it shows a blank screen. Could this be the case?

Ahad12 · 2014-04-05 00:26:29

\hbar wrote:

Can you switch to a virtual console?
I also use the nvidia driver, which makes it so that the consoles are blanked out (the screen turns off when switching to a console). Therefore if there is an error that stops the X server, then instead of showing the console which started the server in the first place, it shows a blank screen. Could this be the case?

Yes it might be. I am clueless on how to get to the virtual console.

Ahad12 · 2014-04-05 00:30:19

Rexilion wrote:

Do you see any output in dmesg?

I don't see any error-looking output nor any relevant output in dmesg,just some nvidia messages.

Rexilion · 2014-04-05 13:39:45

Please post the nvidia messages. I would like to confirm whether if that is a driver loading message or a driver crashing message.

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Startx: Blank screen on MacBook air(3,2)

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