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On 07/06/2009 03:41 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: |
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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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>>>>> |
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>>>>> What is the gentoo way to do that? |
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>>>> |
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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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>>>> |
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>>>> |
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>>> |
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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,.. |
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There are the 'big three' display managers, xdm, gdm(gnome), and kdm(kde) |
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which all do the same job, i.e. asking for your user name and password. |
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All three of them are X applications and therefore they start the X |
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server before they can appear on your screen. |
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Before your troubles started, what did you see when your machine boots |
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up. Does it ask your username on an ordinary black-and-white console, |
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like a teletype, or on a fancy graphics screen with sexy eye-candy so |
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as to seduce unsuspecting MacBook users? |
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