On Saturday 14 Feb 2004 4:51 pm, Steve Bergman wrote: > john wrote: > >I have jsut installed fedora and need to update my video card driver. > >The issue i am having is being able to shut off the x server to be able > >to load the driver properly. If someone could help me with how to > >properly shutdown the xserver it would be grealty appreciated. > > > >thanks in advance > >John > > Log in as root. > > # init 3 > > Do whatever you need to do. > > # init 5 Another way would be to edit (as root) /etc/inittab in your favorite text editor (vi, nano etc.) and look for the line: id:5:initdefault: This line tells the computer to startup in runlevel 5 by default - which starts the X server and allows access to the full network. Change the line to: id:3:initdefault: And you will reboot into runlevel 3, the next time it boots it'll start everything except the X server. Then you can configure your drivers - and type init 5 to test that it works. When you know it's fine, change the inittab back to default to runlevel 5. I hope that makes sence. -- Jim Radford "If at first you don't succeed - change the DC"
