Sometimes there are other X-related processes hanging around. Kill 'em all, saving the one (or more!) gdm processes until last. gdm will auto-restart (under most/all distros?).
Most of the time, if I can get back to a console, I can get X restarted without reboot. This is using an intel chipset on my laptop. I have 3 xorg.conf files. 'no-external' 'clone' and 'xinerama' I manually link xorg.conf to the correct one. All pretty hacky really. And switching from xinerama to a single-screen config can leave the desktop in a confused state. Cheers, Carl. On 28/05/07, Kerry Mayes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I've never got X to restart properly - I always seem to get it to crash and I have to reboot anyway. I may be doing it wrong, what procedure would you suggest? On 28/05/07, Carl Cerecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > killing the x/g/kdm process is faster than rebooting. > > Cheers, > Carl. >
