Re: X starting but nothing shows on the screen

On Fri, Jul 10, 2020, 10:37 AM Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> wrote:

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On 2010-05-08 12:42 +0200, Ólafur Je
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ns Sigurðsson wrote:

> Hello, I have a strange problem.
>
> If X is started from gdm at bootup or with /etc/init.d/gdm start then
> it starts (I know this since it beeps when it is up and running) but
> nothing shows on the screen. The same thing happens when I use startx
> and I have icewm in my .xinitrc. But if I have no .xinitrc file and I
> use startx then Gnome comes up fine.

This is indeed very strange.

This has happened to me a couple times in the past with Debian, and simply turning up the display brightness showed everything normal. Strange indeed ;-)

Sven

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