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danotto

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Registered: 2008-08-21

Posts: 2

screen goes black after exiting fluxbox

hi guys. i im a newbie, switched to linux from windows from a suggestion of a friend. (i have a celeron, nvidia videocard) the 1st time i ran startx, fluxbox started, and gave me vc1 (the command line), but when i startxed again, and exited, the screen went blank and thats whats happening all the time when i start an x thing. so far it happened when i ran the test server, xterm, fluxbox, and xorgcfg. when i exit, i can type su reboot and it reboots, so it has to be a moniter problem. weird thing is, i previously had gentoo installed (switch cuz it was too much of a headache) and gnome worked. brought me to vc1 w/ any problem when i exited. i dont know what the freak is going on. please help!

Inxsible

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From: Chicago

Registered: 2008-06-09

Posts: 9,183

Re: screen goes black after exiting fluxbox

Are you using any DM or just the .xinitrc to start up X?

If you are new to Linux, like you say, maybe using a DM (gdm or kdm or slim) might be a better option

Last edited by Inxsible (2008-08-21 23:41:34)

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danotto

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Registered: 2008-08-21

Posts: 2

Re: screen goes black after exiting fluxbox

yeah, im just using .xinitrc. but i dont understand why it just goes blank when i exit.