Changing X verbosity level
Ok although I am somewhat experienced in Linux I am posting this in the Newbie forums cause I know it is a newbie question and I will slap myself when i see the answer.
I am fiddling around with modelines and I need to change my X log verbosity level. Now i know how to do this from the command line with startx X but in fedora 8 my X is starting automatically. Where is this done and how can I change the verbosity level? Thanks |
I am not used to fedora, so take this advice carefully (mostly with regards to choosing the right runlevel):
You could stop X starting at boot by booting to runlevel3 in most distros (not debian or (k)ubuntu) See /etc/inittab and change the default runlevel from 5 to 3 (maybe different for fedora?) and reboot. Probably easier though (and no reboots): in a proper terminal (<CRTL><ALT><F1>) login as yourself. su - to root then just init 3 X will be shut down. exit so you are back as yourself. Then you can startx with any parameters you wish, and see any messages in the terminal. The X environment is usually to be found on virtual TTY 7 <CRTL><ALT><F7> to switch to it, and <CRTL><ALT><F1> to switch back. Of course you can also access the other terminals with <CRTL><ALT><F2-6> When messing with this sort of thing I usually have <CRTL><ALT><F1> running as myself <CRTL><ALT><F2> running as root <CRTL><ALT><F7> my X display (or not, depending). Once you have it sorted, just reboot, or init 5 as root X generally logs the startup events, and warnings / errors to /var/log/Xorg.0.log That file is worth looking at. There's no need for auto-flagellation. |
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Thanks for that - i know I could change runlevels then manually run startx -verbose 5 but i was hoping there was a way for GDM to launch X with this option. If not then i will go the route described above
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