Re: [gentoo-user] Another X11 problem

[Neil Bothwick]

On Sat, 20 Aug 2016 00:15:15 -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote:

> Once or twice per week, when I start X11 (via the startx program), my
> display goes all black.  When it happens there is no way back to a
> working state: I can see that Xorg is running, I can exit it by hitting
> Ctl-Alt-Backspace, but even then display does not recover.  The only
> thing I can do is hit Ctl-Alt-Del blindly and reboot, and next time it
> usually works.

Can you get back to a VC with Ctrl-Alt-F1/2?


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Neil Bothwick

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