Black screen on fvwm, I can't see anything

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I’ve installed some days ago fvwm2 on Gentoo x86. Everything works fine… I believe.

I can’t see anyting, the screen i s completely black, but three icons on the upper left corner.

This happened after installing the nvidia drivers for my graphic card. After that, I modified the device section on /etc/x11/xorg.conf:

... Section "Device" Identifier "TNT2" Driver "nvidia" Option "NoLogo" "1" #VideoRam 32768 EndSection ...

How can I solve it?

Thanks in advance

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I assume that fvwm is running. Can you see a menu if you click on the root window?

– Thomas Adam

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Yes, fvwm is running, because I can see some things, like a digital clock on the corner upper right, and some icons on the upper left.

If I click on the menu upper left, I can see it, but as I navigate through the submenues, they put one over the previous one.

I can also open shells by left clicking on the desktop, the cursor changes when it’s on them.

The problem is that I can’t see almost anything.

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Menu in the upper left corner sounds like the default twm setup to me…

But if everything is black you might want to check your RgbPath in you X configuration file :slight_smile:

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You can see a screenshot here:

members.fortunecity.es/lopez/

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$ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf | grep rgb RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb" $ ls /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/ | grep rgb rgb.txt

I adapted xorg.conf to that path but nothing changed, so I turned back it to the beginning.

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It’s

RgbPath    "/usr/lib/X11/rgb"

on my Gentoo system.

Besides that you might want to set another wallpaper, though I don’t know the Fvwm Crystal way of going about that.

You might also want to try the “nv” drivers for you nvidia card and see if that helps any>

Thanks to harnir (Fvwm Crystal author) for the hints.

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Incredible :open_mouth: ¡that worked!

I just changed back the driver from “nvidia” to “nv” and all turned back to normality. It’s maybe the nvidia propietary driver incompatible with fvwm or fvwm-crystal?

Thanks, guys!

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I’d rather think it’s incompatible with your TNT2, if I remember correctly NVidia never put that much effort in getting it to work with the older TNT2 chipset… It works just fine with my GeForce4 though :slight_smile: