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#1 2009-05-20 15:58:56

Drac
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Registered: 2006-01-20
Posts: 6

Killin X results in blank screen

Hey all, running a fresh Arch 64bit on a Eurocom laptop (core 2 duo, Nvidia geforce 8600M GTX). Using the newest Nvidia driver and X11. X runs fine, however when I try to kill X (ctrl-alt-backspace or ctrl-alt-f2,f3 etc.etc.) all I get is a blank monitor and I have to reboot. This is insanely annoying as I'm also trying to troubleshoot KDEMOD. Any ideas?

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#2 2009-05-21 08:27:05

andu
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Registered: 2009-05-01
Posts: 16

Re: Killin X results in blank screen

try
su --to run command as super user
init 3 --to exit X

then
init 5 --to get back X

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Add … on_startup

 Inittab Method

The run-levels are:

  0    Halt
  1(S)    Single-user
  2    Not used
  3    Multi-user
  4    Not used
  5    X11
  6    Reboot

Last edited by andu (2009-05-21 10:34:45)

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