Blank Screen: KDE?
Howdy Y'all,
I've just installed Slackware 11.0 on my station at work and I'm getting a blank screen when I leave KDE. This has happened in three distinct situations: 1) In Slax (testing things out, trying to probe the monitor settings), I chose "logout" from the regular KDE menu; 2) after getting KDE from "startx" I again chose the regular "End this session" and got a blank screen, then 3) while in runlevel 3, I typed "kdm" and the screen went blank. From other posts on here, I've figured out that I should just go to the next virtual terminal and log in again, but what causes this and how can I stop it from happening again? BTW, in SLAX, the HorizSync was set to 85 Hz -- is that way out of range for a standard CRT? It seems high to me. I therefore hesitated to change xorg.conf. Thanks, Joel |
Now, I've gotten kdm to start by running init 4, changing the default runlevel to 4 and commenting out the sections in rc.4 for the other display managers.
I've also edited the agetty lines in /etc/inittab as follows: Code:
# These are the standard console login getties in multiuser mode: The other thing is that I can't switch virtual terminals without losing the X server: i.e., if I press CTL-ALT-F2, I get another terminal login, then I hit CTL-ALT-F1 and I get the original login from before KDM started, but no X session. Where did it go? Thanks, Joel |
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Before you edited the /etc/inittab file, the only virtual console would have been on tty6 for runlevel 4. Pat placed some comments in the inittab about this. tty6 appears for runlevel 4: Code:
c6:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty6 linux |
that makes sense, however should I be able to get back to it by pressing CTL-ALT-F7? (Because I can't ;))
What I want is to get back to the display manager when I log out -- then shut down from there...should I just replace the original inittab? Thanks, Joel |
Please let me know what I'm missing here: on other systems (e.g., my home system PCLinuxOS) in runlevel 4, when I exit KDE or any other window manager, I get KDM back offering me another login. Now I get a blank screen.
Here's the current /etc/inittab: Code:
~ Yes, Master? more /etc/inittab Joel |
xorgconfig was the answer. Most people think love is the answer. However, in this case running a livecd and getting the settings from its xorg.conf was the answer.
Thanks, Joel |
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