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Re: [PLUG] Trouble Shoot Blank X Screen
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What about your X server log? - Any clues there? Perhaps it has not
switched to the correct VC. I'd check ctrl-alt 1 thru 10 just to see.
Eric
Casey Bralla wrote:
> I'm trying to set up an old Dell to use Gentoo, and am having trouble getting
> X to work. I get a completely blank screen, although X is running fine and I
> can ssh into the box without any difficulty. (In other words, I think X is
> running properly... except for the blank screen.) Killing the X program
> restores the normal text screen.
>
> Since X never errors out, the X logs show nothing weird.
>
>
> I have an old nVidia card in the computer, but have tried using the "nv",
> VESA, and fbdev devices with the same effect.
>
>
> I even tried loading the Gentoo live CD, which works fine. I copied the
> xorg.conf file from the running live CD, but it produces the same condition.
>
>
> I'm wondering if I'm missing some module from the kernel (I did a manual
> compile).
>
>
> Anybody have any suggestions of what I might try or where I might look? TIA!
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