Re: Black screen after exiting X

From	Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Black screen after exiting X
Date	2016-12-18 10:10 +0100
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On 2016-12-17 23:35 -0500, Felix Miata wrote:

> Rodolfo Medina composed on 2016-12-16 09:34 (UTC):
>
>> After logging out X (I have Openbox as window manager) with Ctrl-alt-Backspace
>> (or also mouse right-clicking), tty1 is completely obscured and then I have to
>> do Alt-F2 (so going to tty2) and Alt-F1 and then I see tty1.  In Google I found
>> many similar problems but of no help to me.  Any suggestions?
>
> I wonder if this problem's root could be related to this?:
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90572
> startx exits to black screen

Might well be the case.

>> Graphics:  Card: NVIDIA NV5 [Riva TNT2 Model 64 / Model 64 Pro]
>>	Display Server: X.Org 1.19.0 drivers: nouveau (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)
>
> Cannot replicate here on Stretch running TDE on somewhat newer yet old GeForce:
> Graphics:  Card: NVIDIA NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400]
>            Display Server: X.org 1.19.0 drivers: modesetting (unloaded: vesa)
>
> Note use of modesetting rather than nouveau. Maybe purging
> xserver-xorg-video-nouveau is worth a try?

As a troubleshooting attempt yes, but I would not recommend the
modesetting driver on such ancient hardware.  Using glamor[1] is not
going to work well, if at all.

Cheers,
       Sven


1. https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/Glamor/

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Black screen after exiting X Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2016-12-16 10:40 +0100
  Re: Black screen after exiting X kamaraju kusumanchi <raju.mailinglists@gmail.com> - 2016-12-17 03:00 +0100
    Re: Black screen after exiting X Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2016-12-17 09:00 +0100
      Re: Black screen after exiting X kamaraju kusumanchi <raju.mailinglists@gmail.com> - 2016-12-18 00:00 +0100
  Re: Black screen after exiting X Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2016-12-18 05:40 +0100
    Re: Black screen after exiting X Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2016-12-18 10:10 +0100
    Re: Black screen after exiting X Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> - 2016-12-18 10:10 +0100

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