screen blacks out after exiting x
 

heres what happens...im running slackware 9.1 and gnome. Now when i startup i log in on tty1 as root and then in the command line i type

#startx

this gets the xwindows GUI up and everything works fine until i decide to do
actions>log out or shutdown

in both cases x stops and screen turns completely blank ...not even a command prompt. If i power off the pc and restart ...i get en error check on /dev/hda2 at which point i have to log in as root and do e2fsck -v -y /dev/hda2 then exit upon completion to get my pc to startup again.

I know i must have screwed something up ...and hope that someone here knows what

"in both cases x stops and screen turns completely blank ...not even a command prompt. "

When you get the black screen try to get an alternate console with:
<Ctrl> <Alt> <F3>
This does not fix your problem but it may get you to a command prompt where you can diagnose the problem and do an orderly shutdown with:
shutdown -r now

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Please specify the type of video card you have, if you have an i810 or higher i'll paste my working XF86Config file. hope this helps!

yupp im using i810 and was getting i810_rng incorrect module parameters during startup....then i added the line

i810_rng

to a blacklist folder (cant remember the exact location of that folder) and restart of pc worked fine after that (no errors)....well apart from the problem with x that is !!

You're running Xwindows as root?

yes.

but i dont see why running x as root will cause this problem??

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Try it as a regular user. I can't even get X to load as rute. This is a good thing.

I had the same problem, and at least for me it was being caused by the VESA framebuffer setting being too high. To fix it, edit the /etc/lilo.conf file and you should see a bunch of lines that look similar to the following:

# VESA framebuffer console @ 800x600x64k
vga = 7xx

(Only one of them will be active and the others will be commented out.) Whichever one you are currently using, it may be too high, so comment out the current setting and uncomment a lower setting (such as 800x600x256). Rerun lilo to install those changes (ie, as root, run: /sbin/lilo ) then reboot. The black screen effect should disappear. Hope that helps -- J.W.

Hey guys. I'm having the exact same problem. After compiling kernel 2.6.2, I can boot into it...Everything works fine. Compiled new Nvidia drivers...Sound works...CD burning works WITHOUT scsi emulation...Network is all good...BUT. When I logout, it goes to totally black screen. No prompt or anything. Sometimes I can hit CTRL+ALT+Del and it will go ahead and reboot for me but most of the time that doesn't work. ctrl+alt+F3 as suggested above didn't work. Changing the VESA framebuffer console to a lower setting as suggested above didn't work. Everything looks good when I'm booting up. I have Tux sitting in the top left corner...all the boot messages scroll by. Font is a little larger than in my 2.4.24 kernel, but not annoying. Any way, any other suggestions on why my screen goes totally black when I exit X?
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Tim

i had the same problem. my fix was runnning

dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86

as is described per /etc/X11/XF86Config-4

i turned down my monitor refresh, as well as not allowing the x server to handle my frame buffering... one of the options says that this may or may not cause a problem. i hope this helps you :)

I suspect it is to do with nvidia driver with framebuffer. This happen with the machine which I compiled framebuffer.