On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, Nifty Hat Mitch wrote: > On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 10:08:04PM +0100, Adam Mercer wrote: > > John Chapman wrote: > > >I have an nVidia FX5200 video card and I have downloaded its drivers > > >from nVidia. When I try to run the installer it says I need to stop > > >the X Server. How do I stop the X Server? > > > > while logged in as root on a virtual terminal, switch to run-level 3 > > > > > telinit 3 > > > > when you're done installing the drivers and modifying the X config > > return to run-level 5 > > > > > telinit 5 > > The above should work more often than not. If you are on a Compaq or HP AMD64 laptop with an nVIDIA chipset, you will want to set the initdefault to 3 instead of switching in this manner. The reason for this is that the chipset (440 go?) does not handle switching back from video correctly with the current X drivers. > > Sometimes the transition from 5 to 3 will leave the > old driver loaded. this can cause problems.... > > If things act badly reboot to run level three. > There are two common way: > > A) Edit /etc/inittab > look for the line > > id:5:initdefault: > > Change the 5 to a 3 and reboot. > Run the installer. Fix the config file. > Reverse the edit after the installer has run. > reboot > > > B) When the system is starting up type A to append > to the grub boot line. Scan the instructions... > > append a 3 to the boot line and continue. > > Run the installer. Fix the config file. > reboot > > I like B because it leaves no perminant change. > It is also the easy path to initstate 1 (single user) > where some SELinux setup steps like "fixfiles relabel" are > best done. > > > > >
