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.