How to turn off Xserver in the gui and turn it off in the command line

geminiviper · 08-19-2004, 11:30 AM

I'm a newbie to Linux. I have a GeForce video card. I know how to install it. I have done it in Fedora Core 2. I now have SuSE 9.1 Pro and don't know how to turn off my X server. Once it's off and I get out to the command line I am okay untill I have to turn my X server back on. How is this done?

GeminiViper
The Linux

wasaabi4784 · 08-19-2004, 11:42 AM

use "init 5"
if it's the same as mandrake?

geminiviper · 08-19-2004, 11:43 AM

That's just it. I don't know how and where to do that in SuSE 9.1. Where do I do that?

wasaabi4784 · 08-19-2004, 11:46 AM

in console

I'm guessing your already there and have logged in. Put this in...

su
<your root password>
init 5

Then it takes care of the rest.

Edit: Are you saying you don't know how to get to console?

If so control+alt+F1 does it, or you can put init 3 in the console window

geminiviper · 08-19-2004, 11:52 AM

None of that
gedit /etc/inittab (as in Fedora Core 2)?

To disable Xserver I do
init 3
Then when in the command line when I'm done installing my driver I do,
init 5
Is that how it works?

wasaabi4784 · 08-19-2004, 12:11 PM

yea, make sure to log in as root too

geminiviper · 08-19-2004, 12:14 PM

I'm at work right now, sad but true, but when I get home I'll try that. If it doesn't work for me, I'll let ya know. Thanks!

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geminiviper · 08-20-2004, 07:57 AM

Hey, thanks for the info!! That all worked out.

PenguinPwrdBox · 08-20-2004, 08:05 AM

One other idea -
CTRL+ALT+Backspace........