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Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 15:21:43 -0700
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to stop X
From: "Kevin O'Gorman" <kogorman@gmail.com>
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On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Paul
Hartman<paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
>
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.
++ kevin
--
Kevin O'Gorman, PhD