Hello, I've had this problem with a HP Z400 workstation which is currently running 10.1-RC2, but had it since I put FreeBSD 10 on it: using either syscons or vt, I can see the console output when the system boots. But once the X server start (through xdm, using the nvidia driver), if I try to switch to another screen, I get only a black screen, but I can get back to vt #9 and get my X session back. If I don't set xdm in /etc/ttys, I can use the consoles... I have no relevant information in dmesg and little in syslog: only messages from console-kit-daemon giving up on the consoles (Device not configured) and devd messages: devd: check_clients: dropping disconnected clients when switching. Does anybody have an idea of what is wrong with my setup? Thanks, -- Matthieu Volat -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 203 bytes Desc: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail URL: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/attachments/20141014/c6226f83/attachment.sig>
On Tue, 14 Oct 2014 11:50:21 +0200, Matthieu Volat <mazhe at alkumuna.eu> wrote:> Hello, > > I've had this problem with a HP Z400 workstation which is currently > running 10.1-RC2, but had it since I put FreeBSD 10 on it: using either > syscons or vt, I can see the console output when the system boots. > > But once the X server start (through xdm, using the nvidia driver), if I > try to switch to another screen, I get only a black screen, but I can > get back to vt #9 and get my X session back. If I don't set xdm in > /etc/ttys, I can use the consoles... > > I have no relevant information in dmesg and little in syslog: only > messages from console-kit-daemon giving up on the consoles (Device not > configured) and devd messages: > devd: check_clients: dropping disconnected clients > when switching. > > Does anybody have an idea of what is wrong with my setup? > > Thanks, > > -- Matthieu Volat >People will like a little bit more information about your hardware and settings. The output of 'dmesg' is helpfull for a start. And the content of /var/log/Xorg.0.log. Regards, Ronald.
On 14.10.2014 11:50, Matthieu Volat wrote:> Hello,Hi!> I've had this problem with a HP Z400 workstation which is currently > running 10.1-RC2, but had it since I put FreeBSD 10 on it: using > either syscons or vt, I can see the console output when the system > boots. > > But once the X server start (through xdm, using the nvidia driver), > if I try to switch to another screen, I get only a black screen, but > I can get back to vt #9 and get my X session back. If I don't set xdm > in /etc/ttys, I can use the consoles...To be sure I understand, you have a non-working console if you start X with xdm from /etc/ttys. What about startx(1)? Do you have a working console in this case? And is this with vt(4) only? In other words, does it work as expected with syscons? -- Jean-S?bastien P?dron -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 949 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/attachments/20141021/4e85090e/attachment.sig>