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
