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On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Paul |
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Hartman<paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Kevin O'Gorman<kogorman@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> I'm having trouble configuring X, and to save time I'd like to be able |
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>> to shut it down, edit some stuff, and start it up again. |
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>> What is the gentoo way to do that? |
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> It depends on how you started X in the first place. If you did a |
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> "startx" (or similar), logging out should be all you need to do to get |
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> out of X. If you use a login manager, XDM/GDM/KDM then it'll restart |
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> itself so you'll need to switch to a VT (ctrl-alt-F1) and then sudo |
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> /etc/init.d/xdm stop to shut down XDM (and therefore X). You can then |
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> rmmod your video drivers or do whatever changes you want to do. sudo |
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> /etc/init.d/xdm start to bring it back up. |
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Several of you suggested "/etc/init.d/xdm start" or so to get it |
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(re)started. It doesn't work. Instead the start-stop daemon |
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complains of not being able to stat "/usr/bin/xdm" which doesn't |
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exist. And no I didn't mispell it. I've never seen this before an |
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I'm baffled. |
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++ kevin |
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Kevin O'Gorman, PhD |
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