[CentOS] Nvidia Geforce 5200 graphic card
Alexandru Chiscan
lec at chiscan.dnsalias.org
Thu Aug 17 07:17:54 UTC 2006
Philip Wyett wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-08-17 at 05:45 +0530, Sudev Barar wrote:
>
>> On 17/08/06, Philip Wyett <philipwyett at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>> [SNIP]
>>
>>> * Download the .run driver file to a location of your choosing.
>>> * Obtain root privileges using 'su -' and entering the root password.
>>> * Open and edit '/etc/inittab' with your preferred editor and change
>>> the line:
>>>
>>> id:5:initdefault:
>>>
>>> to
>>>
>>> id:3:initdefault:
>>>
>>> This will change your runlevel from 5 (graphical) to 3 (text). Save
>>> the changes and exit the editor.
>>>
>>> * Reboot your machine.
>>>
>> [SNIP]
>>
>>> * Now back at the prompt, type 'exit' to logout from the root account.
>>> * Do the three finger salute i.e. 'Ctrl + Alt + Delete' to reboot.
>>>
>>>
>> [SNIP]
>>
>> Excellent howto but..
>>
>> Are the two reboots needed? Why not stop gdm/kdm/whatever from console
>> while logged in as root and do the install and edits and then again
>> restart. You can simply do this by giving command "telinit 3" while
>> logged in as root from "Alt+Ctl+f1" (console 1) and again "telinit 5"
>> to restart.
>>
>> or am I going wrong somewhere?
>>
>
> As I explained you can use telinit, but for me it's just a preference
> not to and I feel the method I used is easier for new comers who really
> don't need the shortcuts so early in their Linux lives.
>
> Regards
>
> Phil
>
to learn others bad practice (restarting the system if not necessary is
one of them) is not good - especially
if they are newcomers; not to mention that what Sudet Barar suggested is
much faster and easier.
Lec
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