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xserver-xorg-video-geode package

  1. Bug #433142
  2. Comment #44

Comment 44 for bug 433142

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phpmonkey (phpmonkey) wrote : Re: geode driver do not display 1024x600 on (K)UNR Karmic

Hello,

If I run "ps -aux | grep Xorg" I get the error message

"bad ps syntax, perhaps a bogus '-'? See http://procps.sf.net/faq.html"

which says "According to the POSIX and UNIX standards, the above command asks to display all processes with a TTY (generally the commands users are running) plus all processes owned by a user named "x". If that user doesn't exist, then ps will assume you really meant "ps aux". The warning is given to gently break you of a habit that will cause you trouble if a user named "x" were created." which doesn't mean much to me :o)

Anyway, after the error message it outputs a line that looks like this:
jenny XXXX 0.0 0.0 3252 YYY pts/0 S+ 0.00 grep Xorg

With XXXX a number that is different every time the command is run (and YYY changes sometimes). Neither killing 3252 nor any of the XXXX numbers does anything, it says "no such process" each time...

Cheers
Jenny