{"id":1727,"date":"2008-05-15T10:23:39","date_gmt":"2008-05-15T07:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/?p=1727"},"modified":"2010-09-23T17:04:02","modified_gmt":"2010-09-23T14:04:02","slug":"xorg-i740-and-blank-console-after-startx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/2008\/05\/15\/xorg-i740-and-blank-console-after-startx\/","title":{"rendered":"X.org, i740 and blank console after startx"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I ran into this problem while testing X with OpenBSD 4.3: the console went completely blank after firing <code>startx<\/code> &mdash; that is, switching back to other virtual terminals while X was running would only display a black screen. And that was all I got after hitting <code>Ctrl+Alt+Backspace<\/code> from X, too: nothing but black. The command-line was still there alright, as I could blindly <code>startx<\/code> again and get X to show up, but the console terminals remained invisible until the next reboot.<\/p>\n<p>The display adapter I was using was an Intel i740 with the driver set accordingly in <code>xorg.conf<\/code>. I didn&#8217;t manage to get the video BIOS upgrading soft (<code>Vflash.exe<\/code>) from Intel to work, and never found the root cause of this problem. It was probably either the card itself or the <code>i740<\/code> driver. I suspect that because once I swapped the card with an extra Radeon 8500LE I had laying around, and the switched to the <code>ati<\/code> driver, console VTs worked like a charm. Also, with the i740 in place they <em>did<\/em> work by using the basic <code>vga<\/code> driver, so my best bet as for the culprit would be the <code>i740<\/code> driver.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I ran into this problem while testing X with OpenBSD 4.3: the console went completely blank after firing startx &mdash; that is, switching back to other virtual terminals while X was running would only display a black screen. And that was all I got after hitting Ctrl+Alt+Backspace from X, too: nothing but black. The command-line [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-1727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-open-source"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1727"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2395,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727\/revisions\/2395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}