On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Paul Hartman<paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Kevin O'Gorman<kogor...@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
