On Tuesday 05 December 2006 19:58, Craig White wrote:
> 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.
>
> ----
> 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
so kubuntu still uses init? I thought all that was gone now.
>
> Craig
>
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