nvidia driver works w/ new kernel and inittab 3, but not 5

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Fr, den 16.04.2004 schrieb Clint Harshaw um 22:41:

> Mike DeHaan wrote:
> > What does "uname -r" yield in runlevel 3 verses runlevel 5?

> 2.4.22-1.2179.nptl for both 3 and 5

Sure, what was to be expecting. The kernel can only change on boot time.
Once a kernel is loaded and init runs, changing the runlevel does not
change anything with the (monolithic Linux) kernel itself. The init
scripts for each runlevel only say whether a service is running or not.

Alexander


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