Re: [gentoo-user] How to stop X

[Paul Hartman]

On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 5:21 PM, Kevin O'Gorman<kogorman@×××××.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Paul
> Hartman<paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Kevin O'Gorman<kogorman@×××××.com> wrote:
>>> I'm having trouble configuring X, and to save time I'd like to be able
>>> to shut it down, edit some stuff, and start it up again.
>>>
>>> What is the gentoo way to do that?
>>
>> It depends on how you started X in the first place. If you did a
>> "startx" (or similar), logging out should be all you need to do to get
>> out of X. If you use a login manager, XDM/GDM/KDM then it'll restart
>> itself so you'll need to switch to a VT (ctrl-alt-F1) and then sudo
>> /etc/init.d/xdm stop to shut down XDM (and therefore X). You can then
>> rmmod your video drivers or do whatever changes you want to do. sudo
>> /etc/init.d/xdm start to bring it back up.
>>
>>
>
> Several of you suggested "/etc/init.d/xdm start" or so to get it
> (re)started.  It doesn't work.  Instead the start-stop daemon
> complains of not being able to stat "/usr/bin/xdm" which doesn't
> exist.  And no I didn't mispell it.  I've never seen this before an
> I'm baffled.

Hi,

You haven't told us how you start X, which I think would make it
easier to determine how to stop it. Maybe you don't use XDM at all, in
which case the above suggestion wouldn't have any relevance to your
situation.