On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 07:52 -0400, Stanley A. Klein wrote: > On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 02:57 -0400, Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko@xxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > > Message: 7 > > Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 12:05:47 +0800 > > From: Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > Subject: Re: How do I get a shutdown/restart dialogue option under the > > system menu at run level 3 in FC5? > > To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Message-ID: <446BF29B.1010301@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > > > Stanley A. Klein wrote: > > > > I put a more meaningful subject back in... > > > > > Gracefully is what the -h option of poweroff appears to do. It shuts > > > down the drive before shutting down all power. Right now, a shutdown > > > kills all power, and I can hear the drive spin down after the power goes > > > off. On my dual-boot laptop, until FC5, I had to reboot into Windows to > > > get a graceful shutdown. > > > > > > Now the question is how to edit the menu to get the dialogue when I do a > > > non-graphical (run level 3) boot and bring up X by entering startx, > > > versus doing a run level 5 boot directly into X. It turns out the menus > > > you get are different and I need to fix it. > > > > Why not just create application icon on your desktop and be done with it? > > > > > I needed to set up the non-graphical boot because my laptop has an > > > Nvidia display and they recommend changing the boot to run level 3. > > > > Who are they? I've not heard of that recommendation before.... > > > > > > Nvidia makes display cards that manufacturers put into machines. There > is an x.org driver for Nvidia, but it rarely works right. To make an > Nvidia display work properly, you have to go to their site, download > their driver installer, go root, and run the installer (which will > possibly compile and install the kernel module that runs their display). > This is best done from run level 3. If you do a general yum update and > yum installs a new kernel, you have to either rerun the driver installer > for the new kernel or edit /boot/grub/grub.conf to make the old kernel > the default. I don't know what happens when the screen driver crashes > during a graphical (run level 5) boot, but I'd rather not experience > it. > > Stan Klein > You missed Aa srep. When a new kernel is installed you have to remove the old drivers while the old kernel is running then boot in to run level 3 with the new kernel and install the new drivers. Then go to run level 5. -- Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
