can't break out of Xorg

[noics]

-per: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html

I am able to get the gray screen 1024x768, and both of my mice are working properly but when I try ctrl_alt_bksp or ctrl-c to break out of Xorg, I get nothing. ctrl_alt_F1 gets me out of gray screen and into a black screen that I can't get out of without hard reboot.

does this sound like keybd or video issue?

 

[graudeejs]

No, that is normal behaviour for latest Xorg which is simply not configured
and the black screen is console, you can do black magic there, if you know how to

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11-wm.html

 

[Beastie]

For the CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE to work, you have to add Option "DontZap" "FALSE" to the ServerFlags section.
But the blackout you're getting when switching back to console is a different matter, and it's most probably video-related.

 

[gcooper@]

Agreed; it's most likely an X11/driver bug. Could you please provide your xorg.conf noics?

 

[MG]

I remember having something similar. A black screen with only a mouse pointer.
All programs depending on gtk crashed with a bad system call error. My .xinitrc could not be executed correctly, resulting in a unuseable X.org desktop
After "portupgrade gtk" it was gone.