From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1M9CCP-0005YZ-Mu for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 27 May 2009 06:01:13 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 337B8E0441; Wed, 27 May 2009 06:01:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pz0-f199.google.com (mail-pz0-f199.google.com [209.85.222.199]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F09BCE0441 for ; Wed, 27 May 2009 06:01:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pzk37 with SMTP id 37so3619050pzk.32 for ; Tue, 26 May 2009 23:01:11 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=DLQYGglS5AHd6r0DQIEsrg268/fmlpsNzeJXoW2QmV0=; b=xAqUMfCbAdP/xtJnBghopW7c35dEPvGL6g/GgPbbAmjO7rj2ndQ6by64GZf3nwsLZ4 vlwipKvhrV3QySDHzsf8bDWolahNTENayUWqIORLI1UbqcmWfl77VhOt/mczEiN/pfZZ BNznS2O38O8C0wNzQ93r4dYyjUpLp3YvVeyIs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=GQV42Ai8MCD8KTjBEnX7TBlCNuhqQicfYXxVdAVhKj2vlQ3E0X4kmGzwJ1Pq8Ymoni hD9QNipTH+wPSJZCe1t1YJ95yloStFzSP4NtUW2yw5aj62bgDUYg5sq6RJBzTZw13PUK KGj8oZ/V5zcgu4NTAIyTMDqS5gW67rYn2e+KM= Received: by 10.114.198.5 with SMTP id v5mr19106230waf.131.1243404071509; Tue, 26 May 2009 23:01:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.0.100? (mu.nmsu.edu [128.123.84.155]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id f20sm2266308waf.52.2009.05.26.23.01.10 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 26 May 2009 23:01:10 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4A1CD724.9090405@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 00:01:08 -0600 From: Hung Dang User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090519) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Question about xorg and a kill process References: <4A1CC1E6.7060304@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4A1CC1E6.7060304@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 3fab05f7-1e89-471d-a00f-97f545d1a8e0 X-Archives-Hash: 7d63408687a8385891b00d5ce5961565 I often use Ctrl+F1 to F6 to back to the command line and if your X is fine you can back the X screen using Ctrl+F7. Or if you want to kill your X then Ctrl+Alt+Backspace may be helpful. Hung Dale wrote: > I know the subject is a bit lacking but here goes. I'm thinking about > trying this xorg-server upgrade again. I been thinking about a way to > do this and not have to pull the plug on my rig if it fails, which I bet > it does. This is the command I am thinking about trying. > > /etc/init.d/xdm start && sleep 5m && /etc/init.d/xdm stop > > I'm thinking this way. Start X first. If it fails, it will stop in 5 > minutes and come back to a console. Think this will work? If xorg > works, I can switch back to a console and ctrl C the command and carry on. > > Thoughts? Better ideas? > > Dale > > :-) :-) > >