[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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