On Fri, 29 Jan 2021 10:49:50 -0700, [email protected] wrote: > I have a recent Gentoo installation and I'm experiencing strange > behaviour. I don't know if it has something to do with the hardware > (video card) or software issue. Video card is: GeForce GTX 1050 I'm > using "nvidia" video driver. > > Sometimes when I log-out and try to log-in back, all I get is black > screen with mouse cursor pointer showing but the screen is black, > nothing is displaying. How to trouble shoot it? It only happens when I > "log-out" and try to "log-in" back. > > The only thing I can do is to ssh from another terminal and "reboot" > the PC.
You could also examine /var/log/Xorg.0.log and ~/.xsession-errors. I think you mentioned running XFCE, so you may also have ~/.xfce4-session.log -- Neil Bothwick Don't just read the Tagline; read the MESSAGE!
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