Just want to be sure. The instructions from nVidia are not real precise on the point of exiting X and/or booting to something other than runlevel 5.
Is the a key stroke/combination to exit X in FC2? And, to set my default runlevel do I only need to edit my /etc/inittab lines:
id:5:initdefault: (changing 5 to 3) x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon (changing 5 to 3)
As I recall I can leave the runlevel at 3 and use 'startx' to Start X until which time I am satisfied with the driver installation?
If there is something I am missing I would like to get it before I start on this installation. I remember when I used IBM OS/2 Warp and upgrading to faster video driver incorrectly could really do a number on a system.
Greg Swallow wrote:
Is the a key stroke/combination to exit X in FC2? And, to set my default runlevel do I only need to edit my /etc/inittab lines:
id:5:initdefault: (changing 5 to 3) x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon (changing 5 to 3)
Well, ctrl-alt-backspace will exit the current X session. However, due to the respawn in the line you quoted, init will immediately restart X.
To change the default runlevel, you only need to change the first line you quoted. Changing the second line will start X in runlevel 3!
To switch to run level 3 temporarily, run telinit 3 as root.
HTH,
James.
On Tuesday 29 June 2004 10:17 pm, Greg Swallow wrote:
Just want to be sure. The instructions from nVidia are not real precise on the point of exiting X and/or booting to something other than runlevel 5.
Is the a key stroke/combination to exit X in FC2? And, to set my default runlevel do I only need to edit my /etc/inittab lines:
id:5:initdefault: (changing 5 to 3)
Just this line
Don't change this line:
x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon (changing 5 to 3)
As I recall I can leave the runlevel at 3 and use 'startx' to Start X until which time I am satisfied with the driver installation?
Yep. If you hit CRTL-ALT-Backspace in X it will give you back runlevel 3 (Ie. TTY). You need to type "startx" again then to get back in X.
RDB
Greg Swallow wrote:
Just want to be sure. The instructions from nVidia are not real precise on the point of exiting X and/or booting to something other than runlevel 5.
Is the a key stroke/combination to exit X in FC2? And, to set my default runlevel do I only need to edit my /etc/inittab lines:
id:5:initdefault: (changing 5 to 3) x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon (changing 5 to 3)
As another poster pointed out, you should only change the first line.
But this is not necessary at all. You can use the command "telinit 3" to change to runlevel 3.
nvidia tell you to change initdefault because, if you had a broken X configuration, it would repeatedly re-spawn and you wouldn't be able to kill it. However, the version of X in FC disables itself after it has failed to start a few times. Even if it didn't, initdefault is only relevant on boot, and it's far easier to append "3" to the boot line in GRUB rather than editing initdefault.
Jonathan
On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 10:17:42PM -0400, Greg Swallow wrote:
Just want to be sure. The instructions from nVidia are not real precise on the point of exiting X and/or booting to something other than runlevel 5.
Is the a key stroke/combination to exit X in FC2? And, to set my default runlevel do I only need to edit my /etc/inittab lines:
id:5:initdefault: (changing 5 to 3) x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon (changing 5 to 3)As I recall I can leave the runlevel at 3 and use 'startx' to Start X until which time I am satisfied with the driver installation?
If there is something I am missing I would like to get it before I start on this installation. I remember when I used IBM OS/2 Warp and upgrading to faster video driver incorrectly could really do a number on a system.
-- Thanks for your support,
It is really simple. If you are in X type ctl-alt-F1 and that will put you in a terminal. Login as root. Then use the command : init 3 to take you to init level 3. Then run the NVIDIA installer. Change the video driver line in /etc/X11/XF86Config from nv to nvidia. Comment out the LOAD dri line if it exists. And type: init 5 Then X should come back up. After that remember to do ctl-alt-F1 again to log off the terminal you were in, and then ctl-alt-F7 to return to X.
On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 08:33:01AM -0500, akonstam@trinity.edu wrote:
On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 10:17:42PM -0400, Greg Swallow wrote:
Just want to be sure. The instructions from nVidia are not real precise on the point of exiting X and/or booting to something other than runlevel 5.
Is the a key stroke/combination to exit X in FC2? And, to set my default runlevel do I only need to edit my /etc/inittab lines:
id:5:initdefault: (changing 5 to 3) x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon (changing 5 to 3)
After changing id:5:initdefault: to id:3:initdefault:
some people do a reboot.
As I recall I can leave the runlevel at 3 and use 'startx' to Start X until which time I am satisfied with the driver installation?
Yes Some folks just use 'startx' all the time BUT there will be some small differences in the way X is setup. Startx is good for smallish boxes that are mostly a firewall.
If there is something I am missing I would like to get it before I start on this installation. I remember when I used IBM OS/2 Warp and upgrading to faster video driver incorrectly could really do a number on a system.
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It is really simple. If you are in X type ctl-alt-F1 and that will put you in a terminal. Login as root. Then use the command : init 3
You can type init 3 in any terminal window. init 3 in one of the terminal windows (ctl-alt-F1,2,3,4) might be cleaner in the way it leaves the hardware. YMMV.
to take you to init level 3. Then run the NVIDIA installer. Change the video driver line in /etc/X11/XF86Config from nv to nvidia. Comment out the LOAD dri line if it exists. And type: init 5 Then X should come back up. After that remember to do ctl-alt-F1 again to log off the terminal you were in, and then ctl-alt-F7 to return to X.
There are times when the nvidia driver does not unload because it is still registered one way or another in the kernel. If this is the case the installer will complain that X is running. The easy way to recover is a reboot into init 3 and not start the x server.
If you forget to edit inittab remember that you can pass the run level to the kernel from the grub shell. Type "a" as in append when you see the line for the kernel. Then append a 3 to the end of the line.
Also with FC2 make sure you are booting the kernel you expect. See /boot/grub/grub.conf for the default=0 line. Since kernels are numbered beginning with zero 0 will get the first.
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