FC1 va nVidia Latest Driver

Reuben D. Budiardja techlist at voyager.phys.utk.edu
Wed Jun 30 13:24:04 UTC 2004


On Tuesday 29 June 2004 10:17 pm, Greg Swallow wrote:
> Just want to be sure. The instructions from nVidia are not real precise
> on the point of exiting X and/or booting to something other than
> runlevel 5.
>
> Is the a key stroke/combination to exit X in FC2? And, to set my default
> runlevel do I only need to edit my /etc/inittab lines:
>
>      id:5:initdefault: (changing 5 to 3)
Just this line

Don't change this line:
>      x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon (changing 5 to 3)


> As I recall I can leave the runlevel at 3 and use 'startx' to Start X
> until which time I am satisfied with the driver installation?

Yep. If you hit CRTL-ALT-Backspace in X it will give you back runlevel 3 (Ie. 
TTY). You need to type "startx" again then to get back in X.

RDB

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