On Monday 06 July 2009, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Paul > > Hartman<paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 5:21 PM, Kevin O'Gorman<kogor...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Paul > >> > >> Hartman<paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Kevin O'Gorman<kogor...@gmail.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. > > I haven't told you because I don't know. I do know that I was using > KDE when I still had X. But I set that up over 5 years ago and I've > forgotten all the details. But there's no sign of *dm in /etc/init.d, > other than xdm, which acts pretty normal outside of the fact that it > fails. It goes through motions, says some things work by putting [OK] > in the right margin, and all that. > > If you tell me how to find out, I'll answer any questions. > > ++ kevin
Look at your ps axf. If it is running via xdm you will see something like: 6403 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/bin/xdm 6417 tty7 Ss+ 28:54 \_ /usr/bin/X :0 -nolisten tcp -br vt7 -auth /etc/X11/xdm/authdir/authfiles/A:0-bvk4xxF -- Regards, Mick
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