David Relson wrote: > On Mon, 6 Jul 2009 15:21:43 -0700 > Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > >> 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 >> > > Hi Kevin, > > This weekend I needed to stop and start X a lot because I was > experimenting with running dosemu from a tty command line and the > DOS application I'm running under dosemu hangs the command line. > > Using an ssh session (from another machine) I found that > "/etc/init.d/xdm stop" works to stop X. However, > restarting is a bit tricky since "/etc/init.d/xdm start" fails because > of files in "/var/lib/init.d/*/xdm". If one runs "rm -rf > /var/lib/init.d/*/xdm" > then runs "/etc/init.d/xdm start" one is good to go. > > HTH, > > David > > >
Then /etc/init.d/xdm zap may be easier and cleaner. Dale :-) :-)
