On 6 Jul 2009, at 23:41, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
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You haven't told us how you start X, which I think would make it
easier to determine how to stop it....
I haven't told you because I don't know. I do know that I was using
KDE when I still had X. But I set that up over 5 years ago and I've
forgotten all the details. But there's no sign of *dm in /etc/init.d,
other than xdm, which acts pretty normal outside of the fact that it
fails. ...
Suggest you review your current configuration against this document:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml
Stroller.