In order to get more screen than 800x600, since the video card I'm using isn't on the list, and neither is my monitor, I've downloaded the NVIDIA "latest and greatest drivers" from nvidia.com, except it won't install. It refuses to run in X mode (unless I force it to, which it says is not recommended), but wants to run in init level 3.
Problem is, I can't get to init level 3. If I run 'init 3' from a root command line, it starts to go down, waits until I type something (anything), then begins heading for init 3 and stops dead right after starting anacron. The only way to revive it is to reboot.
If I run 'init 1' from a command line, it goes down to init level 1 just fine, so I fugred 'Great, now init 2' but it stops right after starting the HAL daemon. It echoes keyboard input but does nothing further at all. I have to reboot.
It's almost as if it's going to a console that isn't my (only) terminal....
I tried to see how to tell grub to come up at init 3, but I can't find that one either.
Help?
Please reply both on list AND directly to me, at least if you reply today, because this subscription is currently set for digest (because I get all the inidividual emails at work) - when I get the video set up properly, I'll fix that....
Thanks.
mhr
Mark Hull-Richter wrote:
In order to get more screen than 800x600, since the video card I'm using isn't on the list, and neither is my monitor, I've downloaded the NVIDIA "latest and greatest drivers" from nvidia.com http://nvidia.com, except it won't install. It refuses to run in X mode (unless I force it to, which it says is not recommended), but wants to run in init level 3.
Problem is, I can't get to init level 3. If I run 'init 3' from a root command line, it starts to go down, waits until I type something (anything), then begins heading for init 3 and stops dead right after starting anacron. The only way to revive it is to reboot.
If I run 'init 1' from a command line, it goes down to init level 1 just fine, so I fugred 'Great, now init 2' but it stops right after starting the HAL daemon. It echoes keyboard input but does nothing further at all. I have to reboot.
It's almost as if it's going to a console that isn't my (only) terminal....
I tried to see how to tell grub to come up at init 3, but I can't find that one either.
Help?
Please reply both on list AND directly to me, at least if you reply today, because this subscription is currently set for digest (because I get all the inidividual emails at work) - when I get the video set up properly, I'll fix that....
boot to single (`linux single` at grub), then edit /etc/inittab, and change the initdefault line to read
id:3:initdefault:
(it probably has 5 in there now), then reboot.
Problem is, I can't get to init level 3. If I run 'init 3' from a root command line, it starts to go down, waits until I type something (anything), then begins heading for init 3 and stops dead right after starting anacron. The only way to revive it is to reboot.
After typing 'init 3' and X exits, hold down your 'Alt' key and press 'F1' to move to the first virtual terminal. If that doesn't work for you, reboot, and when grub comes up, append a '3' to the kernel line and for that boot only you will go into runlevel 3.
Barry
YES!
Of course, I had to compile the kernel so the nvidia installer could build its driver (couldn't find it on the nvidia.com site!), but my screen is now where it should be - 1280x1024, using the NVIDIA Generic (unknown) card.... It does some strange things, like leave a vertical bar when I left arrow at each stopping point in my gmail editor, but that clearsa as soon as I type something. So it's not perfect, but what a difference!
Thanks! Now I can actually use this thing!
Jazzed!
mhr
On 3/18/07, Barry Brimer lists@brimer.org wrote:
Problem is, I can't get to init level 3. If I run 'init 3' from a root command line, it starts to go down, waits until I type something
(anything),
then begins heading for init 3 and stops dead right after starting
anacron.
The only way to revive it is to reboot.
After typing 'init 3' and X exits, hold down your 'Alt' key and press 'F1' to move to the first virtual terminal. If that doesn't work for you, reboot, and when grub comes up, append a '3' to the kernel line and for that boot only you will go into runlevel 3.
Barry
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