Switched to OpenGL interface and messed it up :(
 

I have x11 installed on my acer laptop with kernel version 2.6.27-r8 and all was well for a while until I decided I needed to play me some chess, so I emerged slibo. But when I ran it, it was all messed up and wouldn't render properly, not even the 2d. So I had the bright idea of "eselect opengl set ati". Then, everything froze and lines dashed across my screen. Ctrl+Alt+Bckspace wouldn't work and nothing would so I had to manually shut down my laptop.

I tried to reboot but it wouldn't load up kdm, just the same lines. So then I entered interactive boot mode and disabled kdm, then set opengl back to xorg-x11, and still nothing :(


Any suggestions?
Thanks much,
zpr

So I'm going to guess this is for Gentoo ? maybe ?

have you tried reconfiguring X ?
I'm guessing from the eselect statement you are running the ATI fglrx driver ?

backup your xorg.conf before trying anything else..
cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.orig

Use the aticonfig utility to generate a basic xorg.conf file for your graphics.
See if X will start properly again.


More xorg.conf info.. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml


More complete information with your question would help..
What Distro you are running lsb_release -a
What graphics card you have lspci
Any errors in the xorg log cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep EE

I apologize for the incomplete information. Indeed I am running Gentoo with an ATI Mobility Radeon 1600. I am using open source drivers "xf86-video-ati" with "radeon" set in make.conf.

I'm assuming this nullifies the aticonfig suggestion.

I am currently not home but will be in a couple hours, and will post the xorg log ASAP.

Your assistance is greatly appreciated
Thanks,
zpr

ok so if you are not using the fglrx driver..

then one of these should create a new xorg.conf for you, as stated in the docs.. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml