From: Willie Wong <wwong@math.princeton.edu>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Blank screen when starting or stopping X server
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:03:21 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090825170321.GA19153@princeton.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090825012850.GB15962@gentoo-imac>
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 09:28:50PM -0400, Penguin Lover Simon Hunt squawked:
> Sometimes when I start or stop the X server, for instance at boot when GDM
> loads, or when I logout of Gnome and GDM is restarted, the screen goes blank,
> and the monitor shows an orange light as if it were disconnected from the computer.
> The computer is still on, but I think it is frozen, because I can't use ssh
> to access it. I've diffed the Xorg logs from a normal server and a frozen server
> and they are the same besides dates and other trivial lines, unless perhaps
> the frozen server doesn't even write to a log. If you think I should try that
> again, tell me. I could have done something wrong.
How about the system/kernel logs?
Have you built a video driver against a "wrong" kernel?
W
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2009-08-25 1:28 ` [gentoo-user] Blank screen when starting or stopping X server Simon Hunt
2009-08-25 17:03 ` Willie Wong [this message]
2009-08-26 4:06 ` Simon Hunt
2009-08-26 6:02 ` Simon Hunt
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