greeted with a blank screen whenever I exit out of my X desktop

FormosaTBM · 2017-01-02 02:57:43

doesn't matter which wm i use, whether it's i3 or bspwm
instead of exiting x desktop and back to the commandline, i'm now faced with just a blank black screen.

my .xinitrc is default except the added lines for the wm near the very bottom:
https://ptpb.pw/z3IT

and here is my Xorg.0.log:
https://ptpb.pw/NbrR

jasonwryan · 2017-01-02 03:13:24

Why is your kernel so old?

FormosaTBM · 2017-01-02 04:07:01

uname -r shows i do have the current kernel

somehow the Xorg.0.log in my ~/.local/share/xorg/ was old

the /var/log/Xorg.0.log one is new though
https://ptpb.pw/NQui

Last edited by FormosaTBM (2017-01-02 04:09:17)

jasonwryan · 2017-01-02 04:15:41

Do you have a TTY if you switch while X is still running? What card and driver?

FormosaTBM · 2017-01-02 04:59:28

nividia driver
GeForce GTX 980
someone mentioned that it could be because somehow my xorg decided that it needs root, and that's why my the recent xorg.0.log ended up in /var/log instead of /.local/share/xorg/

you think that might be the reason why my x desktop isn't exiting properly? because somehow xorg is being run as root? o.0

jasonwryan · 2017-01-02 05:14:00

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xo … 28v1.16.29

FormosaTBM · 2017-01-02 06:26:06

needs_root_rights = no in /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config
created this file and checked ps -u root and ps -u myusername

now xorg is not run by root but by my own username now, but upon exiting x with my wm's keybind, i'm left with a black blank screen again

dont think it's my wm either since i've changed my .xinitrc and test it with both i3 and bspwm

FormosaTBM · 2017-01-02 07:22:45

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=219851
https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/53157/

maybe it's just an issue with the new nvidia driver then.
i'll just wait for the next upgrade or something.

FormosaTBM · 2017-01-02 12:07:14

jasonwryan wrote:

Do you have a TTY if you switch while X is still running? What card and driver?

when i'm in X, i can ctrl+alt+f1,f2,f3..... and back to f1 to the original tty1
those all work

when i exit x however, i get the blank screen, but if i type startx, it will actually launch my x again. probably in another tty sine i tried using weechat, but it told me that there's already an instance opened. so the original tty1 and X wasn't exited properly.

jasonwryan · 2017-01-02 17:08:04

How do you exit X? Have you tried using the nouveau driver?

seth · 2017-01-03 08:32:29

Do you have the framebuffer console warning?
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 1#p1671261

pekka · 2017-01-14 09:47:12

Confirm, exiting i3 wm desktop just a blank black screen.

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=219851

Dirty fix

add "nvidia-drm.modeset=1" to the kernel command line

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