[wplug] White screen of death

[Jonathan Billings]

On Aug 1, 2009, at 8:42 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).


GDM is started by init (as defined in /etc/inittab).

When I'm testing GDM themes I use 'gdm-safe-restart' to restart gdm,  
which is both in CentOS and Fedora.

--
Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>