when booted my computer, and it starts x, the screen goes black. when i try to kill the server with Ctrl+Alt+Del...nothing happens.

i had to boot the Gentoo LiveCD and chroot to the HD, and then do

and now i can at least log in to the computer, without X. But if I try to start X, either using KDE or Blackbox, the screen goes black again, and I have to use the reset buton...

How do I fix this??

Thanks

you have to check your xfreeconfig or xorg.config files in
/etc/X11/xinit/ path.

note : to kill X server you need to press CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE

hehe, backspace...of course...duh

I will doublecheck /etc/X11/xorg.conf when i get home, but do not understand why it should suddenly have changed. The only thing I installed before reboot was Mozilla 1.7.5...and that should not do anything to xorg.conf...

Thanks

Also, remember you can use Ctrl-Alt-Function key to switch you between terminals - so you can get to a command prompt even while X is black-screening.

Might help you find out what's wrong. . .

thanks for the replies.
i could not find anything wrong with the xorg.conf file, so i unmerged, and then emerged X...and that fixed the problem..

Me neither! There is nothing wrong with xorg! It's just that 9.2 is single big hunk of crap!
http://www.linuxquestions.org/review...hp?product=374

well, this has nothing to do with SuSE 9.2....i was having problems with xorg on a Gentoo box...

actually i think the problem lays neither with xorg nor suse...i dont know what hardware the guy in the review was using, but i have always had problems with X and nvidia drivers. the one that the distros install by default is ok, but when i install the one from nvidia...something strange usually happens. so since he is writing that he has 3d support, he must have installed the new drivers, cuz 3d support is not default with the drivers in the distro.

Sorry . Wrong call. I must have been distracted by your signature...sorry again

no problem! i can see why would think it was SuSE, with my signature and all