[OpenIndiana-discuss] Multiple monitor support

Rick C. Hodgin rick.c.hodgin at gmail.com
Fri Sep 11 02:29:32 UTC 2015


On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 6:40 PM, John D Groenveld <jdg117 at elvis.arl.psu.edu>
wrote:

> In message <CAAGy7qiKSTfTOTykNOSX6AuXhQgnWdw2ptt_azH8O=+
> sAYny7g at mail.gmail.com>
> , "Rick C. Hodgin" writes:
> >I then went to reboot, but X isn't coming back up.  The OpenIndiana red
> bar
> >goes across repeatedly.  When I finally press a key (numlock) it goes to a
> >text terminal.  I can login and do things, but no X.
> >
> >I tried svcadm enable gdm but no go.  So what'd I do wrong? :-)
>
> Possibly a misconfiguration in /etc/X11/xorg.conf that might
> be indicated in /var/log/Xorg.0.log
>
> John
> groenveld at acm.org
>
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I have been unable to get X to start back up in a usable form.  It seems to
startup, but I can't see anything except a black screen.  I tried renaming
the /root/xorg.conf.new file it created to be rick.rick.new so it wouldn't
load, but that didn't seem to make any difference.

I can boot into OpenIndiana right now, but all I get is a text-based
console window.  X seems to be broken, but I don't know how to undo
whatever the "Xorg :0 -configure" command did, because renaming the
xorg.conf.new to rick.rick.new didn't do it.

Any thoughts?

Best regards,
Rick C. Hodgin


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