On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Kevin O'Gorman<[email protected]> 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.
