Xorg + fglrx = white screen

So I made the switch to arch on my laptop too.
All work nicely, except for fglrx. I had hdw generate a xorg.conf for me, and then edited the resolutions to fit ba hand.
Now when I select fglrx as a driver, the X server does nothing, but display a black screen at first. Over the course of about then seconds, all the pixels on the screen get brighter and brighter, till they're all full white.
Anyone seen this before? I'm not sure what to do. vesa as a driver works, but it is horribly slow on redering stuff, even in 2D.

ATI and its proprietary drivers suck big time. I had lots of stability problems with them on my 9200 and it took a lot of tinkering to enable the DVI output.
After the upgrade to 2.6.18 I switched to X.org's open source drivers and they literally blew my mind . DVI works out of the box, DRI is almost as fast as fglrx and stability issues are long gone.
You should definetely give it a shot.

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White Screen: xf86-video-ati and Compiz After Trying fglrx? [SOLVED]

I have an ATI Radeon X1200 graphics card. I recently tired the ATI proprietary catalyst driver (and catalyst-utils) from the AUR. They did not work well for me, so I uninstalled them. I had run "aticonfig -initial" but, after removing catalyst and catalyst-utils I restored my old xorg.conf. For some reason, with xf86-video-ati set up again, compiz starts, but goes to a white screen. I can see and move my cursor. Everything functions normally, I just can't see anything. I right clicked my desktop and created folders as a test. When I rebooted without compiz, the clicks had been received and folders had been created. How can I fix this? I'm using Gnome (if that means anything). Here's my /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "X.org Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "Files"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "dri"
Load "drm"
Load "xtrap"
Load "extmod"
Load "dbe"
Load "glx"
Load "freetype"
Load "synaptics"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
#DisplaySize 330 210 # mm
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "SHP"
ModelName "13ce"
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
Section "Device"
### Available Driver options are:-
### Values: : integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
### [arg]: arg optional
#Option "NoAccel" # [<bool>]
#Option "SWcursor" # [<bool>]
#Option "Dac6Bit" # [<bool>]
#Option "Dac8Bit" # [<bool>]
#Option "BusType" # [<str>]
#Option "CPPIOMode" # [<bool>]
#Option "CPusecTimeout" # 
#Option "AGPMode" # 
#Option "AGPFastWrite" # [<bool>]
#Option "AGPSize" # 
#Option "GARTSize" # 
#Option "RingSize" # 
#Option "BufferSize" # 
#Option "EnableDepthMoves" # [<bool>]
#Option "EnablePageFlip" # [<bool>]
#Option "NoBackBuffer" # [<bool>]
#Option "DMAForXv" # [<bool>]
#Option "FBTexPercent" # 
#Option "DepthBits" # 
#Option "PCIAPERSize" # 
#Option "AccelDFS" # [<bool>]
#Option "IgnoreEDID" # [<bool>]
#Option "DisplayPriority" # [<str>]
#Option "PanelSize" # [<str>]
#Option "ForceMinDotClock" # <freq>
#Option "ColorTiling" # [<bool>]
#Option "VideoKey" # 
#Option "RageTheatreCrystal" # 
#Option "RageTheatreTunerPort" # 
#Option "RageTheatreCompositePort" # 
#Option "RageTheatreSVideoPort" # 
#Option "TunerType" # 
#Option "RageTheatreMicrocPath" # <str>
#Option "RageTheatreMicrocType" # <str>
#Option "ScalerWidth" # 
#Option "RenderAccel" # [<bool>]
#Option "SubPixelOrder" # [<str>]
#Option "ShowCache" # [<bool>]
#Option "DynamicClocks" # [<bool>]
#Option "VGAAccess" # [<bool>]
#Option "ReverseDDC" # [<bool>]
#Option "LVDSProbePLL" # [<bool>]
#Option "AccelMethod" # <str>
#Option "DRI" # [<bool>]
#Option "ConnectorTable" # <str>
#Option "DefaultConnectorTable" # [<bool>]
#Option "DefaultTMDSPLL" # [<bool>]
#Option "TVDACLoadDetect" # [<bool>]
#Option "ForceTVOut" # [<bool>]
#Option "TVStandard" # <str>
#Option "IgnoreLidStatus" # [<bool>]
#Option "DefaultTVDACAdj" # [<bool>]
#Option "Int10" # [<bool>]
#Option "EXAVSync" # [<bool>]
#Option "ATOMTVOut" # [<bool>]
Option "ColorTiling" "on"
Option "AccelMethod" "EXA"
Option "AGPFastWrite" "yes"
Option "EXAVSync" "yes"
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "radeon"
VendorName "ATI Technologies Inc"
BoardName "RS690M [Radeon X1200 Series]"
BusID "PCI:1:5:0"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 1
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 4
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 8
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 15
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection
Last edited by hank863 (2009-03-29 03:15:26)

Fixed It!! I had to reinstall xorg, mesa, libgl, xf86-video-ati, and ati-dri for some reason.

Xorg goes to white screen

Hello again. I am back to arch. I love arch. But my old computer died and the crappy one I have now apparently doesn't like Xorg.
When I start Xorg using startx or /etc/rc.d/entranced I get a white screen. pure white. not even a mouse.
I used Xorg -configure to get a new xorg.conf and then moved it to /etc/X11/xorg.conf
I have an integrated Intel 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/Ge card. It says VGA compatible.
Any help on this? I am using the vga driver.

I did. I'm (thankfully) not a newbie. I have Ubuntu working nicely on here, I am going to lsmod it and see what it uses. (Ubuntu's xorg.conf files are impossible to use on other OSs everything reads "Configured <device>")

[Solved] White screen after KDE 4.11.1 upgrade

Hi!
I updated the system going from KDE 4.11.0 to KDE 4.11.1. On reboot I got the correct loading of KDM, but upon arrival on the desktop the latter is presented fully white with big red button with an "X" in them. Thinking it was the configuration of kde, I deleted .kde4 with the effect that the next time I always white screen (that is only the red buttons have disappeared).
I try to remove completely kde with:
pacman -Rsnc kde
and seeing that reinstalling I get the same result, I also tried to clean up the cache pacman packages listed by the command:
ls kde*4.11.1*
so I redownload and reinstalled with:
pacman -Syu kde
without solution. I also tried to do what is recommended in the wiki, that is in addition to eliminating .kde4, I run:
$ rm ~/.config/Trolltech.conf
$ kbuildsycoca4 --noincremental
without solution.
Thinking then it might be the partition / almost full, I checked with:
df
but the partition is not filled even for half of the 30gb that is available.
I checked some logs and these are the outputs:
.xsession-errors
> http://pastebin.com/GESX81PV
boot.log
[[32m OK [0m] Started Load Kernel Modules.
Mounting Configuration File System...
[[32m OK [0m] Mounted Configuration File System.
[[32m OK [0m] Found device SAMSUNG_SSD_830_Series.
Mounting /Windows...
Mounting FUSE Control File System...
[[32m OK [0m] Mounted FUSE Control File System.
[[32m OK [0m] Mounted /Windows.
[[32m OK [0m] Found device WDC_WD10EALX-009BA0.
Mounting /Dati...
[[32m OK [0m] Mounted /Dati.
[[32m OK [0m] Reached target Local File Systems.
Starting Trigger Flushing of Journal to Persistent Storage...
Starting Recreate Volatile Files and Directories...
Starting Tell Plymouth To Write Out Runtime Data...
[[32m OK [0m] Reached target Bluetooth.
[[32m OK [0m] Started Trigger Flushing of Journal to Persistent Storage.
[[32m OK [0m] Started Recreate Volatile Files and Directories.
Starting Update UTMP about System Reboot/Shutdown...
[[32m OK [0m] Started Update UTMP about System Reboot/Shutdown.
[[32m OK [0m] Started Show Plymouth Boot Screen.
[[32m OK [0m] Started Tell Plymouth To Write Out Runtime Data.
[[32m OK [0m] Reached target System Initialization.
[[32m OK [0m] Listening on CUPS Printing Service Sockets.
[[32m OK [0m] Reached target Paths.
[[32m OK [0m] Listening on D-Bus System Message Bus Socket.
[[32m OK [0m] Reached target Sockets.
[[32m OK [0m] Reached target Timers.
Starting Restore Sound Card State...
[[32m OK [0m] Reached target Basic System.
Starting Network Manager...
Starting CUPS Printing Service...
[[32m OK [0m] Started CUPS Printing Service.
Starting Catalyst's fglrx kernel' module builder...
Starting Login Service...
Starting D-Bus System Message Bus...
[[32m OK [0m] Started D-Bus System Message Bus.
Starting Permit User Sessions...
[[32m OK [0m] Started Permit User Sessions.
Starting Wait for Plymouth Boot Screen to Quit...
Starting K Display Manager...
[[32m OK [0m] Started K Display Manager.
[[32m OK [0m] Started Catalyst's fglrx kernel' module builder.
[[32m OK [0m] Reached target Sound Card.
[[32m OK [0m] Started Restore Sound Card State.
[[32m OK [0m] Started Login Service.
Starting Manage, Install and Generate Color Profiles...
Starting Authorization Manager...
[[32m OK [0m] Started Manage, Install and Generate Color Profiles.
[[32m OK [0m] Started Authorization Manager.
[[32m OK [0m] Started Network Manager.
[[32m OK [0m] Reached target Network.
Starting Network Time Service...
[[32m OK [0m] Started Network Time Service.
[[0m[31m* [0m] A start job is running for Wait for Plymouth Boot Screen to Quit
[K[[1;31m*[0m[31m* [0m] A start job is running for Wait for Plymouth Boot Screen to Quit
[K[[31m*[1;31m*[0m[31m* [0m] A start job is running for Wait for Plymouth Boot Screen to Quit
[K[ [31m*[1;31m*[0m[31m* [0m] A start job is running for Wait for Plymouth Boot Screen to Quit
[K[ [31m*[1;31m*[0m[31m* [0m] A start job is running for Wait for Plymouth Boot Screen to Quit
[K Starting Daemon for power management...
[[32m OK [0m] Started Daemon for power management.
Starting Disk Manager...
[[32m OK [0m] Started Disk Manager.
[ [31m*[1;31m*[0m[31m*[0m] A start job is running for Wait for Plymouth Boot Screen to Quit
[K[[1;31mFAILED[0m] Failed to start Wait for Plymouth Boot Screen to Quit.
See 'systemctl status plymouth-quit-wait.service' for details.
Starting Getty on tty1...
[[32m OK [0m] Started Getty on tty1.
[[32m OK [0m] Reached target Login Prompts.
[[32m OK [0m] Reached target Multi-User System.
[[32m OK [0m] Reached target Graphical Interface.
[[32m OK [0m] Stopped target Sound Card.
[[32m OK [0m] Stopped target Bluetooth.
Stopping Disk Manager...
Stopping Daemon for power management...
Stopping Authorization Manager...
Stopping Manage, Install and Generate Color Profiles...
Stopping CUPS Printing Service...
[[32m OK [0m] Stopped target Graphical Interface.
[[32m OK [0m] Stopped target Multi-User System.
Stopping Network Time Service...
Stopping Catalyst's fglrx kernel' module builder...
Stopping Login Service...
Stopping D-Bus System Message Bus...
[[32m OK [0m] Stopped target Login Prompts.
Stopping Getty on tty1...
Stopping K Display Manager...
[[32m OK [0m] Stopped K Display Manager.
[[32m OK [0m] Stopped Daemon for power management.
[[32m OK [0m] Stopped Getty on tty1.
[[32m OK [0m] Stopped D-Bus System Message Bus.
[[32m OK [0m] Stopped Disk Manager.
Stopping Permit User Sessions...
[[32m OK [0m] Stopped Authorization Manager.
[[32m OK [0m] Stopped Network Time Service.
[[32m OK [0m] Stopped target Network.
Stopping Network Manager...
[[32m OK [0m] Stopped Manage, Install and Generate Color Profiles.
[[32m OK [0m] Stopped Catalyst's fglrx kernel' module builder.
[[32m OK [0m] Stopped Login Service.
[[32m OK [0m] Stopped Network Manager.
[[32m OK [0m] Stopped CUPS Printing Service.
[[32m OK [0m] Stopped Permit User Sessions.
[[32m OK [0m] Stopped target Basic System.
[[32m OK [0m] Stopped target Paths.
[[32m OK [0m] Stopped target Timers.
[[32m OK [0m] Stopped target Sockets.
[[32m OK [0m] Closed CUPS Printing Service Sockets.
[[32m OK [0m] Closed LVM2 metadata daemon socket.
[[32m OK [0m] Closed /dev/initctl Compatibility Named Pipe.
[[32m OK [0m] Closed Delayed Shutdown Socket.
[[32m OK [0m] Closed Device-mapper event daemon FIFOs.
[[32m OK [0m] Closed udev Control Socket.
[[32m OK [0m] Closed D-Bus System Message Bus Socket.
[[32m OK [0m] Stopped target System Initialization.
Unmounting Debug File System...
Unmounting FUSE Control File System...
Stopping Update UTMP about System Reboot/Shutdown...
Unmounting POSIX Message Queue File System...
Unmounting Huge Pages File System...
Stopping Setup Virtual Console...
[[32m OK [0m] Stopped Setup Virtual Console.
[[32m OK [0m] Unset automount Arbitrary Executable File Formats File System Automount Point.
Stopping Apply Kernel Variables...
[[32m OK [0m] Stopped Apply Kernel Variables.
Unmounting Configuration File System...
[[32m OK [0m] Stopped target Encrypted Volumes.
[[32m OK [0m] Stopped target Swap.
[[32m OK [0m] Stopped target Local File Systems.
Unmounting /Windows...
Unmounting /Dati...
Unmounting Temporary Directory...
Stopping Journal Service...
[[32m OK [0m] Stopped target Remote File Systems.
[[32m OK [0m] Stopped Update UTMP about System Reboot/Shutdown.
[[32m OK [0m] Unmounted Temporary Directory.
[[32m OK [0m] Unmounted POSIX Message Queue File System.
[[32m OK [0m] Unmounted FUSE Control File System.
[[32m OK [0m] Unmounted Huge Pages File System.
[[32m OK [0m] Unmounted Configuration File System.
Stopping Load Kernel Modules...
[[32m OK [0m] Stopped Load Kernel Modules.
[[32m OK [0m] Unmounted Debug File System.
[[32m OK [0m] Unmounted /Windows.
[[32m OK [0m] Unmounted /Dati.
[[32m OK [0m] Reached target Unmount All Filesystems.
[[32m OK [0m] Stopped target Local File Systems (Pre).
Stopping Remount Root and Kernel File Systems...
[[32m OK [0m] Stopped Remount Root and Kernel File Systems.
[[32m OK [0m] Stopped Journal Service.
[[32m OK [0m] Closed Journal Socket.
Starting Show Plymouth Reboot Screen...
Starting Store Sound Card State...
Unmounting /...
[[32m OK [0m] Started Store Sound Card State.
[[32m OK [0m] Reached target Shutdown.
Sending SIGTERM to remaining processes...
Sending SIGKILL to remaining processes...
Hardware watchdog 'iTCO_wdt', version 0
Unmounting file systems.
All filesystems unmounted.
Deactivating swaps.
All swaps deactivated.
Detaching loop devices.
All loop devices detached.
Detaching DM devices.
All DM devices detached.
Storage is finalized.
dmesg
> http://pastebin.com/fbgh2ayu
journalctl -p 3 --since=today
-- Logs begin at mar 2013-07-30 13:16:10 CEST, end at lun 2013-09-16 08:52:14 CEST. --
set 16 08:43:14 arch dhcpcd[346]: eno1: ipv6rs_sendprobe: sendmsg: Cannot assign requested address
set 16 08:43:14 arch ntpd_intres[338]: host name not found: 0.pool.ntp.org
set 16 08:43:14 arch ntpd_intres[338]: host name not found: 1.pool.ntp.org
set 16 08:43:14 arch ntpd_intres[338]: host name not found: 2.pool.ntp.org
set 16 08:43:14 arch ntpd_intres[338]: host name not found: 3.pool.ntp.org
set 16 08:43:18 arch ntpd_intres[338]: host name not found: 0.pool.ntp.org
set 16 08:43:18 arch ntpd_intres[338]: host name not found: 1.pool.ntp.org
set 16 08:43:18 arch ntpd_intres[338]: host name not found: 2.pool.ntp.org
set 16 08:43:18 arch ntpd_intres[338]: host name not found: 3.pool.ntp.org
set 16 08:45:03 arch login[308]: pam_systemd(login:session): Failed to connect to system bus: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.
set 16 08:45:04 arch kdm[351]: :0[351]: pam_systemd(kde:session): Failed to connect to system bus: Failed to connect to socket /run/dbus/system_bus_socket: Connection refused
set 16 08:45:04 arch kdm[351]: :0[351]: pam_close_session() failed: Cannot make/remove an entry for the specified session
set 16 08:45:04 arch systemd-coredump[1103]: Process 309 (X) dumped core.
[1;39m-- Reboot --[0m
set 16 08:46:11 arch dhcpcd[346]: eno1: ipv6rs_sendprobe: sendmsg: Cannot assign requested address
set 16 08:46:12 arch ntpd_intres[337]: host name not found: 0.pool.ntp.org
set 16 08:46:12 arch ntpd_intres[337]: host name not found: 1.pool.ntp.org
set 16 08:46:12 arch ntpd_intres[337]: host name not found: 2.pool.ntp.org
set 16 08:46:12 arch ntpd_intres[337]: host name not found: 3.pool.ntp.org
set 16 08:46:16 arch ntpd_intres[337]: host name not found: 0.pool.ntp.org
set 16 08:46:16 arch ntpd_intres[337]: host name not found: 1.pool.ntp.org
set 16 08:46:16 arch ntpd_intres[337]: host name not found: 2.pool.ntp.org
set 16 08:46:16 arch ntpd_intres[337]: host name not found: 3.pool.ntp.org
set 16 08:48:02 arch login[305]: pam_tally(login:auth): pam_get_uid; no such user
kdm.log
> http://pastebin.com/zmgj4AGq
Xorg.0.log has no errors.
How can I resolve it?
Thanks
Last edited by Fregtux (2013-09-20 08:35:13)

Fregtux wrote:
Thanks Thaodan! I deleted /var/tmp/kdecache-$USER and I solve the problem! I also restore .kde4_backup and at the moment have no issue.
Small question: I noticed that there are also kdecache-kdm and kdecache-root. I should remove it or doesn't matter?
Thanks for the help!
THANKS, my White Screen was caused by a combination of issues but this solution worked for me.
My Problem -
I am not sure exactly what caused my white screen, I was playing around with /etc/profile & /etc/sudoers
What I changed -
sudoers - I added my user group to sudoers and allowed sudo to execute applications using xauth in home dir
profile - changed umask to 133 ( I hate execute bit ) and default text editor to nano
What Happened -
Tried to reload via source but no changes where taking effect so I rebooted.
Upon reboot I could not login to KDE, it would keep looping back to the KDM after I entered by password for my user, however it would let me login as root ( after I enabled root login ).
I figured this was a permission issue so I changed umask back to 022 in /etc/profile, I was then greeted with the White Screen after login. I read numerous posts about how to fix this, most said to reinstall kde and delete /tmp, none of this worked.
I deleted /var/tmp/kdecache-$USER and now I am back in business ( I had to re set the widgets, i.e. panel ).
I was so excited that I had to write a post about it!
Thanks again!

Startx gives white screen with mouse cursor after upgrade

Hello, I have been a long time lurker and I have finally come across a problem I havent been able to find anywhere else. I just updated the catalyst-hook package and now on startx I get a white screen with a working mouse cursor and apparently my keyboard works as well. It seems as if it is running normally other than the fact there is a white screen instead of my background. I'm not getting any unusually errors in my logs and I've regenerated my xorg.conf. I cannot seem to find any solution to this. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Its not so much a white background as a completely white desktop ( no icons no lxpanel etc) just a white screen with a mouse cursor that is usable and the keyboard works as well. I was even able to open a terminal with a keyboard shortcut and reboot the comp. Other than my desktop not being rendered right, LXDE seems to be functioning normally
Last edited by AbstractLogic (2011-08-02 09:14:16)

White Screen of Death in KDE4

Greetings all, I'm trying to setup KDE4, but I'm running into that fun white screen. I can get into kdm all right, but when I try to log into kde it just goes straight to the white screen and mouse pointer. I can't get anywhere else. I installed KDE4 from Tardo's repositories http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=33536.
Searching the forums, I've seen a couple of older posts that KDE4 doesn't like glx or compositing, so I tried disabling one then the other, but to no avail. I also have E17 and Gnome, and both of those work fine. My hardware is a Nvidia 8600GT card, and I'm using 64bit Arch.
Any ideas? Here is my xorg.conf:
# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig: version 1.0 (buildmeister@builder26) Thu Dec 13 18:55:42 PST 2007
# Auto-generated by Archie mkxcfg
# Auto-generated by Archie mkxcfg
Section "ServerLayout"
# Serial Mouse not detected
# USB Mouse not detected
Identifier "Xorg Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "PS/2 Mouse" "CorePointer"
EndSection
Section "Files"
# Additional fonts: Locale, Gimp, TTF...
# FontPath "/usr/share/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/75dpi"
# FontPath "/usr/share/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/100dpi"
# True type and type1 fonts are also handled via xftlib, see /etc/X11/XftConfig!
RgbPath "/usr/share/X11/rgb"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic"
FontPath "/usr/local/share/fonts"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "ddc" # ddc probing of monitor
Load "dbe"
Load "extmod"
Load "bitmap" # bitmap-fonts
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
Load "record"
Load "glx"
EndSection
Section "ServerFlags"
Option "AllowMouseOpenFail" "true"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "keyboard"
Option "CoreKeyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "generic"
Option "XkbLayout" ""
Option "XkbVariant" ""
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Serial Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "Microsoft"
Option "Device" "/dev/ttyS0"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
Option "Emulate3Timeout" "70"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "PS/2 Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
Option "Emulate3Timeout" "70"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "USB Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Buttons" "5"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "Unknown"
HorizSync 30.0 - 110.0
VertRefresh 50.0 - 150.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
Section "Device"
# Option "TripleBuffer" "true"
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "All"
BoardName "All"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
# Monitor "Monitor0"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "RenderAccel" "true"
Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true"
Option "AddARGBVisuals" "True"
Option "DisableGLXRootClipping" "True"
Option "NoLogo" "True"
# Option "backingstore" "true"
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 1
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 4
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 15
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 32
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
# Option "Composite" "Disable"
EndSection

schivmeister wrote:
Very misleading. The so-called screen of death refers to a state of process death, where the components of the computer do not respond. These are not screens of "death", processes are running fine, only the configuration is borked or there is a bug.
Go into your fallback environment of choice and install KDE stable.
I'm sorry if that's misleading - I have heard it called that before, so I used the term. Semantics aside, I'd rather fix the problem than go to KDE stable.

[beryl] white screen after libx11/libgl-dri upgrade

hello archers
after upgrading libx11 & libgl-dri this morning i suddenly have the white screen problem in beryl. the cube rotates and the cursor changes when howevering over windows, but the desktop is all white.
the only thing that was changed in my setup is that i upgraded libx11 and libgl-dri. here's the snippet from pacman.log:
[11/25/06 11:34] installed xcb-proto (1.0-1)
[11/25/06 11:34] installed libxcb (1.0-1)
[11/25/06 11:34] upgraded libx11 (1.0.3-1 -> 1.1-1)
[11/25/06 11:34] upgraded libgl-dri (6.5.1-1 -> 6.5.1-2)
i tried reverting by getting the previous PKGBUILDs from CVS and recompiling. but the white screen problem remained. however, getting the old packages from a server that had not been sync-ed did fix the problem :?
i will stick with the old packages for now. does anyone have a clue what might be the cause of this and whether there is a fix?
for reference: i am using beryl on aiglx with the i810 driver (945GM chipset) and KDE
ps: if anyone having the same problem needs the old packages i am willing to host them

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Library/Fonts:
[A hole bunch, removed to shorten post...]
Does the problem account also have a lot of fonts in the home folder? That could be the reason for a login failure. Otherwise see below.
Please read this whole message carefully, especially the warnings, before doing anything.
1. The changes to your configuration suggested here should be considered provisional; they may not solve your problem, or they may remove functionality that you find useful. If a third-party system modification that you want to keep is causing the problem, seek help from its developer.
2. WARNING: Back up all data now if you haven’t already done so. Before proceeding, you must be sure you can restore your system to its present state, even if it becomes unbootable. If you’re not sure you can do that, STOP — DON’T CHANGE ANYTHING. If you’re dissatisfied with the results of the procedure suggested below, restore from your backup. I will not be responsible for the consequences, and I will not be able to help, if you ignore this warning.
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N/A
and definitely remove at least the following:
Logitech Control Center
† PeerGuardian
Hotspot Shield
† Conduit
4. Whatever you remove must be removed completely, and (unless otherwise specified in this message) the only way to do that is to use the uninstallation tool, if any, provided by the third-party developers, or to follow their instructions. If the software has been incompletely removed, you may have to re-download or even reinstall it in order to finish the job. I can't be more specific, because I don't install such things myself. Please do your own research.
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If you can’t remove software in any other way, you’ll have to erase your boot volume and perform a clean reinstallation of OS X. Never install any third-party software unless you're sure you know how to uninstall it; otherwise you may create problems that are very hard to solve.
WARNING: Trying to remove complex system modifications by hunting for files by name often will not work and may make the problem worse. The same goes for "utilities" that purport to remove software.
5. I recommend that you never reinstall the modifications marked with a dagger (†) above, if any. If your problem is resolved after uninstalling all the above modifications and rebooting, but you still want to use some of those not marked with a dagger, you can experiment with putting them back, one at a time, testing carefully after each step. Keep in mind that system modifications may be incompatible with each other or with future OS X updates, so it may not be clear which one is at fault.
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Help Center | Community Toolbar
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Triple-click the line below to select it:
~/Library/Application Support/Conduit
Copy the selected text to the Clipboard (command-C). From the Finder menu bar, select
Go ▹ Go to Folder…
Paste into the box that opens (command-V), then press return. A Finder window should open with a folder named "Conduit" selected. If it does, delete the selected item.
Repeat with this line:
/Applications/Toolbars
Now you're deleting a folder named "Toolbars". You may be prompted for your login password. Next, copy this line:
/Library
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Application Support/Conduit
InputManagers/CTLoader
LaunchAgents/com.conduit.loader.agent.plist
ScriptingAdditions/ct_scripting.osax
Close the Finder windows you opened. Log out and log back in.

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Reinstalling Lion/Mountain Lion Without Erasing the Drive
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Reinstall Lion/Mountain Lion: Select Reinstall Lion/Mountain Lion and click on the Continue button.
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