exit X ?

w00t · 05-27-2003, 06:32 PM

On installing the Nvidia drivers it says to exit X *KDE or w/e* but how do i do it ?

OS: Mandrake 9.1

Thanks
w00t

Proud · 05-27-2003, 06:33 PM

Change your runlevel from 5 to 3 normally. See /etc/inittab

w00t · 05-27-2003, 06:36 PM

w00t · 05-27-2003, 06:41 PM

Could you explane in n00b terms lol

Crashed_Again · 05-27-2003, 06:43 PM

I think it just wants you to restart X. Try doing Control+Alt+BackSpace

Proud · 05-27-2003, 06:44 PM

Change the line that reads:
id:5:initdefault:
to:
id:3:initdefault:
and then reboot your pc.
Another way may be to use telinit 3 from a command line as root, use Ctrl+Alt+F1 to get to this. I know the first way works.
With Mdk9.1 it didnt even have to compile anything for nVidia, it takes just a min to reboot, install, change the X config, and get back to gui

w00t · 05-27-2003, 06:48 PM

Thanks i will give it a try

Proud · 05-27-2003, 06:51 PM

You might want to brush up on using something like vim to edit the config file from a command line.
vim thefilepathandname
Maybe press Insert to edit
Maybe press Escape to stop editing
Type :wq to tell vim to write the changes and quit.

You can see I use the CLI a lot

w00t · 05-27-2003, 07:02 PM

lol

Ok this is what i did and this is what happend

Hit Ctrl+Alt+F1

enterd the mode u said it would
enterd user name and pass
typed su to get to root
did cd to change to the dir with the driver file
then ran it with sh filenameblah.run and got this

ERROR: You appear to be running an X server; please exit X before
installing. For further details, please see the section INSTALLING
THE NVIDIA DRIVER in the README available on the Linux driver
download page at www.nvidia.com.

kazuni · 05-27-2003, 07:40 PM

just go to konsole / xterm and type "init 3" to go to console mode, init 5 to x server mode, init 6 to reboot, init 1 to shutdown

w00t · 05-27-2003, 08:16 PM

Thanks that seemd to work lol

went to Konsone typed xterm another window poped up so did init 3 went to root selected the installer ran it and rebooted with the init 6

Right now i gotta edit a file lol

kazuni · 06-01-2003, 08:04 PM

glad that it worked. you can also use

Code:

halt

or

Code:

reboot

to shutdown or reboot