On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 11:49 AM, bn <[email protected]> wrote: > Mark Knecht ha scritto: >> Title sort of says it. I have an old machine that I'm setting up as a >> Myth server. I didn't want X on the machine but I'm having trouble so >> I emerged xdm and start it using /etc/init.d/xdm start. The drivers >> get loaded but I get a black screen. No error message in the X log >> file. >> >> I haven't messed with X at this level before. What's the minimum test >> of X that would display a terminal or something very basic? >> > > Have you tried > > startx /usr/bin/xterm >
Yes. Same black screen. Nothing else going on. The processes show up in ps aux, X as root, xterm as me.
