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#1 2009-08-13 17:19:26

Tree_Climber
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X black screens.

Well, the screen just goes black and I can't figure out why, there doesn't appear to be anything wrong with X it just won't work.
It used to work yesterday before I reinstalled X.
Anyone know what the possible causes for the blank screening are?
I have an ATI radeon 9600 graphics card.

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#2 2009-08-13 17:20:45

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Re: X black screens.

Which driver have you installed ?

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#3 2009-08-13 17:24:44

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Re: X black screens.

The xf86-video-ati one

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#4 2009-08-13 17:59:29

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Re: X black screens.

Do you have xorg installed, hal started and no xorg.conf in /etc/X11 ?

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#5 2009-08-13 18:06:50

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Re: X black screens.

Yes, I even tried it with a xorg.conf and it didn't work.

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#6 2009-08-13 18:14:27

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Re: X black screens.

Are your user in groups hal and dbus?


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#7 2009-08-13 18:17:26

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Re: X black screens.

I'm using the root user to test it so I should be....

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#8 2009-08-13 18:28:04

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Re: X black screens.

Then when trying to run GNOME using gnome-session. I get something like "WARNING: cannot open display: "

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#9 2009-08-13 18:34:14

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Re: X black screens.

Tree_Climber wrote:

I'm using the root user to test it so I should be....

Don't log in as root. Never.

Install GDM or KDM, add it to the DAEMONS array in rc.conf or in /etc/inittab and login with that.

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#10 2009-08-13 18:44:29

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Re: X black screens.

That won't start, I tried...
It just black screens.

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#11 2009-08-13 18:50:01

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Re: X black screens.

Now HAL is failing to start, where are the error logs located for that?
EDIT: hal starts again but it still black screens.

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