I have tried to install the proprietary Nvidia driver for my GE Force 6150
card. The problem is that in order to install the driver, one must have the
system in text mode.
Normally, this would be no sweat. Just run 'sudo telinit 3' and when the
Gnome window is replaced by a text screen, run 'sudo sh
NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-173.14.31-pkg2.run'. But apparently, something as basic
to X-windows for more than twenty years as telinit WILL NOT WORK! In all past
distributions (since Yggdrasil Linux in 1994, and up to Ubuntu 9.x) this
command sequence would have worked perfectly. But not now.
So I had a look at Grub, figuring that I could find a way to produce a boot
instruction which would be the equivalent of "boot 1" in order to get into
single user text mode. Can't figure it out because trying to learn how to
edit grub, the grubbiest boot manager since DOS 1.0, is harder than reading
the space shutle flight manual.
NowI am a retired Unix sysop since 1988 (HP-UX, QNX,IRIX,Ultrix and HP's
RTE-A before that) and I have been using Linux since '94, I'm neither easily
frustrated nor frightened by most problems. But this one has me mad enough
to go back to Lilo and forget about Gnome, which in any case has become
bloatware par excellence.
How do I get my system into either single user or multiuser text mode
(telinit 1 or 3) so I can install the driver?
- [Trisquel-users] Telinit and text mode lukacsem
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