Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Bob Slawson <bslawson@×××××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] X crashing so oftenly
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2006 19:19:42
Message-Id: 44D8E332.20802@frontiernet.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-amd64] X crashing so oftenly by jai kumar
1 jai kumar wrote:
2
3 > Hi all,
4 > Again i got strange kind of problem. Well i find out that there is
5 > no /etc/x11/xorg.conf in my gentoo and X server is running and making
6 > its own config at run time.
7
8 (on my machine I can find...)
9
10 $ apropos config | grep xorg
11 xorg.conf [xorg] (5x) - Configuration File for Xorg
12 xorgcfg (1x) - Graphical configuration tool for Xorg
13 xorgconfig (1x) - generate an xorg.conf file
14 xorg.conf [xorg] (5x) - Configuration File for Xorg
15 xorgcfg (1x) - Graphical configuration tool for Xorg
16 xorgconfig (1x) - generate an xorg.conf file
17
18 (so...)
19
20 $ man xorgconfig
21
22 (and when you're finished reading...run, as root...)
23
24 # xorgconfig
25
26 (that should leave you with /etc/X11/xorg.conf which you might want to
27 look at)
28
29 > I have "virtual/x11-7.0-r2 +x11-base/xorg-x11-7.1+
30 > x11-drivers/xf86-video-via-0.2.1-r1" installed on my amd64 machine
31 > with on board video chipset+512 mb ram. well sometimes while doing
32 > "ctrl+alt+f1(for teminal tty0)" my X server crash down and restart
33 > again. I did google for the same but didn't find any matching answer.
34 >
35 > Is it something to do with xorg.conf ??
36
37 Perhaps. But are you running X as user "root"? If so, don't; login as
38 an ordinary user, see
39 <http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml?part=1&chap=11>
40 if you need help setting up account(s).
41
42 BobS
43
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