On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 13:04, Shawn Mahon wrote: > Edit your /etc/inittab to say this A simpler method, well two actually. 1) at boot, from the grub screen press a, this will let you edit the kernel parameters, add a 3 to the end of the list and boot into text mode. or: 2) press ctrl-alt-F1, this will swap to a text screen, log in as root. at the prompt type telinit 3 and press enter. this will shut down all X sesions. install your drivers, then type telinit 5 which will restart X and gdm. just to be safe, after changing your X config, type startx and make sure it works before doing telinit 5. -- Rob Brown-Bayliss ________________________________________________________________________ Despite the cost of living, it remains a popular pastime. ________________________________________________________________________
