Title: turning off X to install a graphic driver
I have some of the official Novell documentation to SuSE which I used to
install an nVidia card. I am sorry I cannot give you a link to it since it
is in our internal intranet, but paraphrasing from it:
login as root (or use su command), edit the file /etc/inittab changing the
line that says
id:5:initdefault:
for
id:3:initdefault:
In linux there are login several levels(they are different in the same way
booting on Windows normally or in safe mode). The usual login level in
most Linux distributions is 5(login with networking and Xserver or GUI
mode). With this change, if you reboot you will go to login level 3(login
with networking but no Xserver). That is what nVidia drivers want.
So after you changed that line, reboot. Then log in as root(using the
non-graphical prompt that will come up), install the driver, and to see if
it worked type
startx
That should start the Xserver(GUI mode) and you can see if the driver is
working properly. If it did work, go and change back that line in
/etc/inittab and then reboot again. If you forget to change it back each
time you reboot you will go again to login level 3, which is the non-GUI
mode.
In the posting you mentioned that you wanted to kill the Xserver, and
ctrl-Alt-Backspace does that, but that means that it will only log you off
and reboot the Xserver. That is what most of the previous answers were
about.
I hope this helps
Chris Alvarez
IS&T Web Application Services
Novell, Inc., the leading provider of information solutions
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I have foun
d a 64-bit driver for my nvidia graphics card running Suse 9.0.
I run the driver using the sh command and it
comes up telling me I have X server running and I need to exit out of it
before the driver will install. I can find the command line commands
to kill a process. Is this the best way? Is there
a cleaner way of exiting out of X
, or is the command line killing of the process the way to go?
(something akin to the old starting windows in ms-dos mode
, maybe?
)
Jack Slade
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Chris Alvarez
(801)861-3837
Novell, Inc., the leading provider of information solutions.
http://www.novell.com
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