xorg.conf: thought I would pass this along

[Craig White]

On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 19:40 -0700, Jerry Davis wrote:
> I was looking on the internet, and found that I might be able to make the 
> graphics in X11 work a bit faster by changing the default depth to 16 instead 
> of 24.
> 
> So I changed xorg.conf and rebooted. (I don't know how to change the runlevel 
> in kubuntu to 3 and then back to 5 [ if that is what is needed ] to restart 
> X).
> 
> Everything looked pretty good, until I started firefox. I started and 
> restarted firefox, several times, and it would just die unexpectedly.
> I then did it at the command line, and it died again, but told me that an X 
> error had occurred, resulting in firefox dying.
> 
> I changed xorg.conf back to 24 and rebooted once again. This time firefox came 
> up first time, no problem.
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I don't know about the firefox issue - you don't really say much about
version of FF or xorg but...

<Control><Alt><Shift><Backspace> will forcibly quit X (make sure you
save any open documents first) - and if you want to switch run-levels,
generally, you could get a virtual console <Control><Alt><F2> login as
root, and type 'init 3' to switch to runlevel 3 and 'init 5' to switch
to runlevel 5

Craig