Stripes on screen after installing Fedora

[Ric Moore]

On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 18:28 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-08-10 at 00:44 +0200, Bjørn Ivar Johnsen wrote:
> > The only thing is that I do not know how to work this"# rpm -ivh
> > http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-9.rpm"... where do i enter this
> > text?
> > Hope you bear with me, I have never tried anything like this before. I
> > suspect that I have to boot up, press "a" then "3", and then it should
> > come
> > to some interface where I can write this commands!?!
> 
> Exactly. Or you could do what someone else suggested: boot normally and
> when you get the flashing stripes hit Ctrl-Alt-F1 (i.e. hold down the
> Control and Alt keys and hit the F1 function key). That will switch you
> to Virtual Console number 1, which is a text-mode terminal. Log in as
> root and then type the commands as Marcelo said.

Don't you need to have X shutdown?? As root "init 3" will do that
handily. Then install the driver. Then type "init 5" to go back into
graphical mode. Ric

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