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 1M9HmU-0003hf-9b for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 27 May 2009 11:58:50 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 87CB1E0519; Wed, 27 May 2009 11:58:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from swip.net (mailfe04.tele2.it [212.247.154.109]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B088E0519 for ; Wed, 27 May 2009 11:58:48 +0000 (UTC) X-Cloudmark-Score: 0.000000 [] X-Cloudmark-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=BajS60DTjUAA:10 a=j7OszySXA3MA:10 a=44BDUlaFJiQkRjciIe5NBw==:17 a=_RSLDFtQbfLloHtzL7EA:9 a=oBTw0fGYdFpbwfvVAx7i2pDdjg0A:4 Received: from [131.111.115.220] (account cxu-7bj-8gb@tele2.it [131.111.115.220] verified) by mailfe04.swip.net (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.2.13) with ESMTPA id 1248509615 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 27 May 2009 13:58:46 +0200 Received-SPF: neutral receiver=mailfe04.swip.net; client-ip=131.111.115.220; envelope-from=brullonulla@gmail.com Message-ID: <4A1D2C66.2090003@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 13:04:54 +0100 From: bn User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090429) 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> <4A1CD724.9090405@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4A1CD724.9090405@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 996d04a2-71b0-47b2-9ba5-2bebefeda774 X-Archives-Hash: a2a540be17ddbe236c641ab85351efaf Hung Dang ha scritto: > 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. Unless X freezes and steals your keyboard away. m. > 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 >> >> :-) :-) >> > > >