LinuxQuestions.org - Xfree Blank on exit.

Hi, I have some problems with xfree86 that I have been struggling to resolve for the last few weeks.

You see when I close X, either by logging out of KDE (or some other session) or by crtl, alt and backspace, sometimes the screen will just go dark and stay that way. Originally I thought it might have something to do with the framebuffer - but after a long struggle I gave up the framebuffer to see what would happen. Unfortunately it appears to have made no difference whatsoever.

It doesn't quite lock up my system as such, but since I can't see anything, my only option is to press crtl alt and del to reboot.

I am curious if maybe this was because I originally installed Xfree 4.4 - and then I realised that ati didn''t provide any drivers for 4.4, so I decided I would revert back to 4.3. But in doing so I am curious if somehow some of my paths might have got screwed up?

The question is, how do I check?

Reading around Google here are some of the tips I picked up on things I could try.

Code:

$ ldd `which glxgears` | grep libGL

        libGL.so.1 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1 (0x40016000)

$ fglrxinfo

display: :0.0  screen: 0

OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.

OpenGL renderer string: RADEON 9800 Generic

OpenGL version string: 1.3 (X4.3.0-3.11.1)



$ slocate libGL.so.1

/usr/lib/libGL.so.1

/usr/lib/opengl/xfree/lib/libGL.so.1.2

/usr/lib/opengl/xfree/lib/libGL.so.1

/usr/lib/opengl/ati/lib/libGL.so.1.2

/usr/lib/opengl/ati/lib/libGL.so.1

/usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1

So by looking at that, if the which glxgears command is correct, it seems that the path to my ati libGL is somehow innacurate?

I ask as I am now officially at a loss for things to try. I don't think it's normal or accceptable for my system to fault and become unusable like this quite this often. I already had enough of this stuff over the years with Windows. It might for a lesser mortal lead them to forma very bad impression of Linux.

But in any case frustration aside, is there some way I can make sure all of my paths are correct? If so which should I be looking for - and if they are indeed wrong how can I fix them?

On another note if all else fails and I have no other option, how would i go about removing every trace of X from my system? I mean I know I can do an emerge unmerge, but I am not sure if that would be enough to return my system to a point before X was installed. How can I be absolutely certain that when I remove it, no trace of it at all will remain?

At least that way I hamight have a chance that I can be sure that I can start again from scratch.

GJ