[wplug] White screen of death

[Mackenzie Morgan]

On Saturday 01 August 2009 8:42:51 am Drew from Zhrodague wrote:
> >> 	As Mr. Billings said, you can ctrl-alt-backspace to kill the current X 
> >> server. You can also (with root permissions) killall gdm-binary, or 
> >> switch to runlevel 3, and back to runlevel 5 (init 3, init 5). Any of 
> >> those *should* reset the video card.
> > 
> > Not "service gdm restart"?
> 
> 	Hm, I don't see gdm as a service in /etc/init.d/, but I am using 
> CentOS, and not Fedora. It is my understanding, however, that they are 
> structurally the same. I didn't think there was such a service, as X is 
> generally called via init in runlevel 5 (see last line in /etc/inittab).

I expected it'd be in /etc/rc5.d/ (as a symlink to /etc/init.d/).  I need to 
setup a Fedora VM, then.  Haven't used it since FC6.

-- 
Mackenzie Morgan
http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com
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