X not working with latest updates

[Adam Huffman]

On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 10:12 PM, Adam Huffman <adam.huffman at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 6:46 PM, Adam Jackson <ajackson at redhat.com> wrote:
>  > On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 23:22 +0000, Adam Huffman wrote:
>  >
>  >  > Ignoring the keyboard aspect, I've updated the X server to
>  >  > xorg-x11-server-common-1.4.99.900-0.28.20080304 and the Intel driver
>  >  > to 2.2.1-4 but I still get the blank white screen with a pointer.
>  >
>  >  White screen of death is compiz freaking out for not being able to load
>  >  your DRI driver.  Updating mesa-libGL should help, if my spies inform me
>  >  correctly.
>  >
>
>  It did fix the white screen of death, but now I get a series of
>  striped, coloured bars and the pointer is frozen, necessitating a hard
>  reset.
>
>  Here's the end of the x log:
>
>  (II) intel(0): I2C device "LVDSDDC_C:ddc2" registered at address 0xA0.
>  (II) intel(0): I2C device "LVDSDDC_C:ddc2" removed.
>  (II) intel(0): I2C device "LVDSDDC_C:ddc2" registered at address 0xA0.
>  (II) intel(0): I2C device "LVDSDDC_C:ddc2" removed.
>  (II) intel(0): I2C device "LVDSDDC_C:ddc2" registered at address 0xA0.
>  (II) intel(0): I2C device "LVDSDDC_C:ddc2" removed.
>  (II) intel(0): I2C device "LVDSDDC_C:ddc2" registered at address 0xA0.
>  (II) intel(0): I2C device "LVDSDDC_C:ddc2" removed.
>  evdev: leds are 0x0 for device 8
>  evdev: leds are 0x0 for device 9
>  (II) intel(0): I2C device "LVDSDDC_C:ddc2" registered at address 0xA0.
>  (II) intel(0): I2C device "LVDSDDC_C:ddc2" removed.
>

By creating a new user who isn't running compiz, I'm able to get in to
X now.  Is there some way of changing back to metacity from the
command line?