Re: how to get to runlevel 3

2011-06-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 10 iun 11, 07:57:12, frank thyes wrote: On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 07:42 +0200, Mark Panen wrote: Been googling for this with no success. I have tried init 3 and teinit 3 and the runlevel command shows i am at runlevel 3 but X is still on and i cannot install a Nvidia driver. Enter

Re: how to get to runlevel 3 (to install nvidia drivers)

2011-06-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 10 iun 11, 15:09:49, Rohit Vaidya wrote: For NVidia driver installation the Xorg should not be kept running. Why not? Using the Debian packages I never had any issues with that. Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers:

Re: how to get to runlevel 3

2011-06-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 22:14 -0400, William Hopkins wrote: On 06/10/11 at 07:42am, Mark Panen wrote: Hi Been googling for this with no success. I have tried init 3 and teinit 3 and the runlevel command shows i am at runlevel 3 but X is still on and i cannot install a Nvidia driver.

Re: how to get to runlevel 3 (to install nvidia drivers)

2011-06-11 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-06-11 10:30 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Vi, 10 iun 11, 15:09:49, Rohit Vaidya wrote: For NVidia driver installation the Xorg should not be kept running. Why not? Using the Debian packages I never had any issues with that. The NVidia installer tries to load the kernel module when

Re: how to get to runlevel 3 (to install nvidia drivers)

2011-06-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2011-06-11 at 10:56 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2011-06-11 10:30 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Vi, 10 iun 11, 15:09:49, Rohit Vaidya wrote: For NVidia driver installation the Xorg should not be kept running. Why not? Using the Debian packages I never had any issues with

Re: how to get to runlevel 3 (to install nvidia drivers)

2011-06-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 11 iun 11, 10:56:28, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2011-06-11 10:30 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Vi, 10 iun 11, 15:09:49, Rohit Vaidya wrote: For NVidia driver installation the Xorg should not be kept running. Why not? Using the Debian packages I never had any issues with that.

Re: how to get to runlevel 3 (to install nvidia drivers)

2011-06-11 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-06-11 11:20 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Sb, 11 iun 11, 10:56:28, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2011-06-11 10:30 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Vi, 10 iun 11, 15:09:49, Rohit Vaidya wrote: For NVidia driver installation the Xorg should not be kept running. Why not? Using the

Re: how to get to runlevel 3 (to install nvidia drivers)

2011-06-11 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-06-11 11:16 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: *?* on Ubuntu it was possible to remove an old version and to add a new while running a DE. I suspect this is possible on Debian too? Using the Debian packages, yes. I was talking about the official installer. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: how to get to runlevel 3 (to install nvidia drivers)

2011-06-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2011-06-11 at 11:28 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2011-06-11 11:16 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: *?* on Ubuntu it was possible to remove an old version and to add a new while running a DE. I suspect this is possible on Debian too? Using the Debian packages, yes. I was talking about

Re: how to get to runlevel 3 (to install nvidia drivers)

2011-06-11 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-06-11 12:15 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sat, 2011-06-11 at 11:28 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2011-06-11 11:16 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: *?* on Ubuntu it was possible to remove an old version and to add a new while running a DE. I suspect this is possible on Debian too?

Re: how to get to runlevel 3 (to install nvidia drivers)

2011-06-11 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 11/06/11 19:16, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sat, 2011-06-11 at 10:56 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2011-06-11 10:30 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Vi, 10 iun 11, 15:09:49, Rohit Vaidya wrote: For NVidia driver installation the Xorg should not be kept running. Why not? Using the Debian

Re: how to get to runlevel 3

2011-06-10 Thread frank thyes
On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 07:42 +0200, Mark Panen wrote: Been googling for this with no success. I have tried init 3 and teinit 3 and the runlevel command shows i am at runlevel 3 but X is still on and i cannot install a Nvidia driver. Enter who -r to see your current run level but there is no

Re: how to get to runlevel 3

2011-06-10 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 07:42:25AM +0200, Mark Panen wrote: Been googling for this with no success. I have tried init 3 and teinit 3 and the runlevel command shows i am at runlevel 3 Then you are in runlevel 3. If your true objective is to get to runlevel 3, you have succeeded! but X is

Re: how to get to runlevel 3

2011-06-10 Thread Mark Panen
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 8:57 AM, Dave Sherohman d...@sherohman.org wrote: On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 07:42:25AM +0200, Mark Panen wrote: Been googling for this with no success. I have tried init 3 and teinit 3 and the runlevel command shows i am at runlevel 3 Then you are in runlevel 3.  If your

Re: how to get to runlevel 3

2011-06-10 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 09:37:15AM +0200, Mark Panen wrote: yes, as Frank said /etc/init.d/kdm stop works, one thing i don't understand about runlevels though is, when i reboot, i still get X which i want but, who -r run-level 2 2011-06-10 09:01 last=S why is

Re: how to get to runlevel 3

2011-06-10 Thread Jochen Schulz
Mark Panen: why is X running at runlevel 2 and not 5? As Dave said: in Debian, there's no difference between runlevels 2-5. J. -- Thy lyrics in pop songs seem to describe my life uncannily accurately. [Agree] [Disagree] http://www.slowlydownward.com/NODATA/data_enter2.html

Re: how to get to runlevel 3

2011-06-10 Thread Greg Madden
On Thursday 09 June 2011 09:42:25 pm Mark Panen wrote: Hi Been googling for this with no success. I have tried init 3 and teinit 3 and the runlevel command shows i am at runlevel 3 but X is still on and i cannot install a Nvidia driver. Cheers Mark /etc/inittab on Squeeze. # Runlevel

Re: how to get to runlevel 3

2011-06-10 Thread George Chelidze
On 06/10/2011 11:37 AM, Mark Panen wrote: why is X running at runlevel 2 and not 5? sysv-rc-conf is a handy tool to check/set which service is run per run level. as you can notice, runlevels 2-5 are identical (in Debian) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: how to get to runlevel 3 (to install nvidia drivers)

2011-06-10 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 10/06/11 15:42, Mark Panen wrote: Hi Been googling for this with no success. I have tried init 3 and teinit 3 and the runlevel command shows i am at runlevel 3 but X is still on and i cannot install a Nvidia driver. Cheers Mark I suspect you don't want to get to run level 3,

Re: how to get to runlevel 3

2011-06-10 Thread Mark Panen
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 11:05 AM, George Chelidze gcheli...@magticom.ge wrote: On 06/10/2011 11:37 AM, Mark Panen wrote: why is X running at runlevel 2 and not 5? sysv-rc-conf is a handy tool to check/set which service is run per run level. as you can notice, runlevels 2-5 are identical (in

Re: how to get to runlevel 3 (to install nvidia drivers)

2011-06-10 Thread Rohit Vaidya
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 2:38 PM, Scott Ferguson prettyfly.producti...@gmail.com wrote: On 10/06/11 15:42, Mark Panen wrote: Hi Been googling for this with no success. I have tried init 3 and teinit 3 and the runlevel command shows i am at runlevel 3 but X is still on and i cannot install a

Re: how to get to runlevel 3 (to install nvidia drivers)

2011-06-10 Thread David Sanders
I suspect you don't want to get to run level 3, you just want to shut down your x server. Ctrl+Alt+Backspace - if that doesn't work, or it keeps restarting... # /etc/init.d/kdm stop (or gdm if gnome, or whatever you dm is) I'd definitely say that using gdm or kdm is a better option -

Re: how to get to runlevel 3 (to install nvidia drivers)

2011-06-10 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 10/06/11 20:01, David Sanders wrote: I suspect you don't want to get to run level 3, you just want to shut down your x server. Ctrl+Alt+Backspace - if that doesn't work, or it keeps restarting... # /etc/init.d/kdm stop (or gdm if gnome, or whatever you dm is) I'd definitely say that using

Re: how to get to runlevel 3 (to install nvidia drivers)

2011-06-10 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 11:01:34 +0100, David Sanders wrote: I suspect you don't want to get to run level 3, you just want to shut down your x server. Ctrl+Alt+Backspace - if that doesn't work, or it keeps restarting... # /etc/init.d/kdm stop (or gdm if gnome, or whatever you dm is) I'd

Re: how to get to runlevel 3

2011-06-10 Thread William Hopkins
On 06/10/11 at 07:42am, Mark Panen wrote: Hi Been googling for this with no success. I have tried init 3 and teinit 3 and the runlevel command shows i am at runlevel 3 but X is still on and i cannot install a Nvidia driver. telinit 3 should work for you, what does `who -r` show? Why do you

Re: how to get to runlevel 3

2011-06-10 Thread William Hopkins
On 06/10/11 at 10:14pm, William Hopkins wrote: On 06/10/11 at 07:42am, Mark Panen wrote: Hi Been googling for this with no success. I have tried init 3 and teinit 3 and the runlevel command shows i am at runlevel 3 but X is still on and i cannot install a Nvidia driver. telinit 3

how to get to runlevel 3

2011-06-09 Thread Mark Panen
Hi Been googling for this with no success. I have tried init 3 and teinit 3 and the runlevel command shows i am at runlevel 3 but X is still on and i cannot install a Nvidia driver. Cheers Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.