Video issue when exiting X...

[walter harms]

Am 12.07.2012 14:01, schrieb David Sorkovsky:
> Hi all - I have an issue and I'm hoping someone knows the answer...
>  
> Ubuntu Server 11.04 + xinit + new motherboad & cpu = problem
> 
> I have had X working on my Ubuntu Server for quite a while previously,
> however I had to update the motherboard & cpu and that are slightly newer
> and now I have an issue...
>  
> On the old system I ran "xinit" and on exit it dropped back to the command
> line perfectly!
>  
> Now that the system has been updated, "xinit" still runs fine, but when I
> exit, the display goes blank and the console does not show... About all I
> can do is to SSH in and reboot the server.
>  
> Early debugging... Only thing I see of note through SSH from another PC on
> the LAN is "ps -A" before start xinit has "tty1 ... getty" and after exiting
> has "tty1 ... login" and "tty1 ... bash". If I "sudo pkill login" I get back
> to "tty1 ... getty" but the screen is still blank!
>  
> As an experiment I tried to relaunch "xinit" from the blank screen [typing
> blind] and via SSH "ps -A" I saw "tty1 ... xinit", etc, so it seems that the
> console was active, but the display was somehow still incorrectly set.
> Unfortunately, even though I'd re-started xinit, the screen remained blank -
> display mode seems to have somehow stuck in limbo???
>  
> Would be great to hear from anyone with ideas - Guessing something around
> the graphics mode that remains after X closes or the console resolution?!
>  
>  
> PS: New = Gigabyte - GA-H77M-D3H &Intel - BX80637I73770
>  
>  
> Dave
>  

hi Dave,
Do you have an xorg.log under /var/log/ ?

it would make debugging more easy if you port this.

re,
 wh