My friend is new to Linux, everything was fine until he made some changes to X, which result into this problem. Now whenever he types command startx to start X he get a blank screen. Finally, he contacted me me via yahoo and asked me to get rid rid of this problem.
Step # 1: Reset blank X screen
First, get out of Blank screen by pressing combination of keys Ctrl+Alt+Backspace. If this fails, reboot system.
Step # 2: Reconfigure X server display
At shell, prompt type the following command to reconfigure X display.
If you are using Red Hat /Fedora / CentOS Linux type command:
# redhat-config-xfree86
If you are using Debian Linux type command:
# dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86
OR login as the root user and type command:
# XFree86 -configure
Step # 3: Test new setup
Type startx to test your new settings:
# startx
OR if you used XFree86 –configure command to reconfigure X, then test it with following command:
# XFree86 -xf86config /etc/X11/XF86Config.new
See also:
- List of Graphics adapters supported by X server.
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”At shell, prompt type the following command to reconfigure X display”
where is this shell located? i dont understand please reply
with all what that was written here will it solve the problem to the computer
A solution I found when upgrading Ubuntu broke my X server was to install xserver-xorg-video-all. For some reason, my fglrx driver quit working. My X server started and the monitor turned off (after some attempts to keep it from crashing at startup). After installing all the video drivers and rebooting, everything was all better.