Hi all --
I'm running into an odd problem with Openbox: on most of my systems, using the Openbox menu > 'Log out' drops me back to a terminal session. However, on one workstation this causes X to terminate -- i.e. I'm left with a black screen, and I typically either need to do a hard reset or ssh into the workstation and
The workstation is a Dell Precision Tower 5810 with an Nvidia Quadro K420
I'm running FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE, with the nvidia-driver and xorg-7.7_3
I don't see anything interesting in the Xorg log:
The main difference between this system and the others is that there seems to be a quirk with this Quadro card: I typically start my sessions with
Any suggestions for how to approach trouble-shooting this? It'd be nice to be able to drop back to a terminal without having to reboot the workstation.
Thanks in advance for your time and trouble.
I'm running into an odd problem with Openbox: on most of my systems, using the Openbox menu > 'Log out' drops me back to a terminal session. However, on one workstation this causes X to terminate -- i.e. I'm left with a black screen, and I typically either need to do a hard reset or ssh into the workstation and
shutdown -r now.The workstation is a Dell Precision Tower 5810 with an Nvidia Quadro K420
Code:
vgapci0@pci0:3:0:0: class=0x030000 card=0x116210de chip=0x0ff310de rev=0xa1 hdr=0x00
vendor = 'NVIDIA Corporation'
device = 'GK107GL [Quadro K420]'
class = display
subclass = VGAI'm running FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE, with the nvidia-driver and xorg-7.7_3
Code:
> uname -a
FreeBSD ditrestle 11.1-RELEASE-p4 FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE-p4 #0: Tue Nov 14 06:12:40 UTC 2017 root@amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64
> pkg info | grep xorg-7.7_3
xorg-7.7_3 X.Org complete distribution metaport
> pkg info | grep nvidia
nvidia-driver-384.59 NVidia graphics card binary drivers for hardware OpenGL renderingI don't see anything interesting in the Xorg log:
Code:
> tail -n 10 Xorg.0.log.old
[ 107.640] (--) NVIDIA(GPU-0):
[ 107.640] (--) NVIDIA(GPU-0): DELL P2417H (DFP-2): connected
[ 107.640] (--) NVIDIA(GPU-0): DELL P2417H (DFP-2): Internal DisplayPort
[ 107.640] (--) NVIDIA(GPU-0): DELL P2417H (DFP-2): 960.0 MHz maximum pixel clock
[ 107.640] (--) NVIDIA(GPU-0):
[ 131.653] (II) config/devd: terminating backend...
[ 131.654] (II) UnloadModule: "mouse"
[ 131.654] (II) UnloadModule: "kbd"
[ 132.048] (II) NVIDIA(GPU-0): Deleting GPU-0
[ 132.070] (II) Server terminated successfully (0). Closing log file.The main difference between this system and the others is that there seems to be a quirk with this Quadro card: I typically start my sessions with
xinit /usr/local/bin/openbox-session but that caused problems with this workstation after an update (see https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/61860/). Based on the feedback there, I've switched to invoking startx, with the paths moved into ~/.xinitrc; i.e.:
Code:
xscreensaver -no-splash &
/usr/local/bin/openbox-sessionAny suggestions for how to approach trouble-shooting this? It'd be nice to be able to drop back to a terminal without having to reboot the workstation.
Thanks in advance for your time and trouble.
