On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 11:45, Craig McLean wrote: > [snip] > >> You might want to go to runlevel 3 to change X drivers, which you > >> wouldn't want to do with X running. > >> > > > > Actually, I'd quite like to be able to do that with X running, although > > I suspect there's not much demand. > > Actually I suspect that many people would like to be able to do this, > but I also suspect that switching a running X instance to a new hardware > driver on the fly is as close to impossible (given the current design of > X) as makes no odds. > There is, perhaps, slightly more mileage in the idea of maintaining > window manager state across X restarts. That is, keeping the desktop the > same while X restarts underneath it. Again this is (AFAIK) unimplemented > rather than unfeasible. Doesn't ctl-alt-backspace kill X sufficiently to restart with new drivers without any of the other changes a runlevel switch invokes? -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
