-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 16 August 2004 19:47, Thom Paine wrote: > I just downloaded the nvidia drivers for my desktop. In the readme it > says to exit X and boot to the text mode login. My machine boots to the > gui login. How do I make the change? I even don't mind if it stays that > way. You should be able to get to a text mode console with Crtl-Alt-F1, for example. Ctrl-Alt-F7 will normally get you back into X. Do Ctrl-Alt-F1, login and do telinit 3 as root. This will move you to runlevel 3, where X is not running, and X will be stopped. Then you can do the nVidia deed. If you want it to stay that way for future boots, edit /etc/inittab and change the line id:5:initdefault: to id:3:initdefault: If you then want to start X from text mode, it will be a job for telinit 5 - -Andy - -- Automatic actions for USB cameras, cardreaders, memory sticks, MP3 players http://warmcat.com/usbautocam -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBIQI1jKeDCxMJCTIRAj37AJ9pJGTo7CB6vnUKdel92tXSAqCxEgCbBJTS LeJt7tRheRoilkyh41eCMOU= =GH+Q -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
