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On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Paul |
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Hartman<paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 5:21 PM, Kevin O'Gorman<kogorman@×××××.com> wrote: |
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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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> Hi, |
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> You haven't told us how you start X, which I think would make it |
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> easier to determine how to stop it. Maybe you don't use XDM at all, in |
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> which case the above suggestion wouldn't have any relevance to your |
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> situation. |
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I haven't told you because I don't know. I do know that I was using |
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KDE when I still had X. But I set that up over 5 years ago and I've |
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forgotten all the details. But there's no sign of *dm in /etc/init.d, |
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other than xdm, which acts pretty normal outside of the fact that it |
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fails. It goes through motions, says some things work by putting [OK] |
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in the right margin, and all that. |
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If you tell me how to find out, I'll answer any questions. |
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++ kevin |
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Kevin O'Gorman, PhD |
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