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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uunet!xzaphod!sbartram From: sbartram@xzaphod.com (Scott Bartram) Subject: XFree86 gives blank screen Message-ID: <1992Oct16.205212.19447@xzaphod.uucp> Sender: sbartram@xzaphod.uucp (Scott Bartram) Organization: XZaphod in Rockville, MD Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 20:52:12 GMT Lines: 22 I had XFree86 1.1 up and running fine a few days ago. Then I did something to break it: I decided to start a new source tree so that I could apply all of Terry's patchkit patches. Since I got everything fixed up and a new kernel built, I can't run X. When I start the server, it flips to graphics mode, blanks the screen and never draws anything. The programs are running (server, xterm, etc) because I can type 'exit' and it switches back to text mode like everything is fine. I have even tried going back to my last (pre-patchkit) kernel that was working, and it does the same thing! Does anybody have any idea what's going on or at least a starting point for debugging inside the server? scott -- ======================================================================= Scott Bartram sbartram@xzaphod.com uunet!xzaphod!sbartram