On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Paul Hartman<[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 5:21 PM, Kevin O'Gorman<[email protected]> wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Paul >> Hartman<[email protected]> wrote: >>> On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Kevin O'Gorman<[email protected]> 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 -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
