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On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Kevin O'Gorman<kogorman@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.